Anyone Up For Translating .CATPart?

[McLaren]

 The customer as well as our own Catia guy have tried saving this as a step file but they have all imported in bad. If anyone could convert this to an .mcam (2017) file for me I'd be eternally grateful!

0001058-1 REV B.CATPart

[Guest]

Here you go. 

 

0001058-1 REV B.stp

[Guest]

Came into Inventor 2018. Read STEP into PowerMill 2018 and came in fine.... 

[Guest]

If that doesn't work, give this a shot. 

0001058-1 REV B.x_t

[McLaren]

Thanks for trying, but no go.

Step File -

 

Parasolid -

[Guest]

Try that,, looks good in 2017

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xu17t1gccyf4tio/0001058-1 REV B.SLDPRT?dl=0

 

Damn those crappy ACIS modelers

Edited August 10, 2017 by Guest

[crazy^millman]

Sure hope that is not an ITAR part.

[gcode]

zipped MC2017  mastercam file

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/94ov6akfrqjf874/0001058-1 REV B.zip?dl=0

 

SpaceClaim CAT translator, then x_b v28 out

The model itself was a watertight solid, but there were 100+ extraneous surfaces which  I deleted

before exporting the parasolid 

MC2017 reports it's a single closed solid

 

 

[Fred @ Slate Industries]

Isn't it funny 20 years later ( Autocad / Mech desktop ,ampartout  command) 

were all still shuffling are parts & assembly's  through various save as 

To hopefully get a clean part  , lol

#1 SW 

#2 X_T

The rest which is what I get :

Pro e .step

Ug .step

90 % of it comes in  clean on a good day

 

 

[McLaren]

12 hours ago, JParis said:

Try that,, looks good in 2017

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xu17t1gccyf4tio/0001058-1 REV B.SLDPRT?dl=0

 

Damn those crappy ACIS modelers

Looks great JParis, thanks!

[McLaren]

12 hours ago, gcode said:

zipped MC2017  mastercam file

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/94ov6akfrqjf874/0001058-1 REV B.zip?dl=0

 

SpaceClaim CAT translator, then x_b v28 out

The model itself was a watertight solid, but there were 100+ extraneous surfaces which  I deleted

before exporting the parasolid 

MC2017 reports it's a single closed solid

 

 

This one looks great too, thanks gcode!

[McLaren]

12 hours ago, C^Millman said:

Sure hope that is not an ITAR part.

No sir.

[crazy^millman]

Just now, McLaren said:

No sir.

Sorry, but seen some ITAR parts on here before. 

[gcode]

yes.. I've seen and deleted a few myself

[JoshC]

On a side note, if you get a lot of Catia type part files you can always contact your reseller and purchase a Catia Translator and read in Native catia files.

Linky: http://www.mastercam.com/en-us/solutions/3rd-party-solutions/translators

 

[gcode]

2 hours ago, JoshC said:

On a side note, if you get a lot of Catia type part files you can always contact your reseller and purchase a Catia Translator and read in Native catia files.

Linky: http://www.mastercam.com/en-us/solutions/3rd-party-solutions/translators

 

We have the MoldPlus CatV converter here.

It works well, but I did not try it on this file

[McLaren]

3 hours ago, JoshC said:

On a side note, if you get a lot of Catia type part files you can always contact your reseller and purchase a Catia Translator and read in Native catia files.

Linky: http://www.mastercam.com/en-us/solutions/3rd-party-solutions/translators

 

 I'm going to have the powers that be look into that as well as SpaceClaim since gcodes model came  in good. Not sure what JParis used.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, McLaren said:

Not sure what JParis used.

Solidworks

[crazy^millman]

8 minutes ago, McLaren said:

 I'm going to have the powers that be look into that as well as SpaceClaim since gcodes model came  in good. Not sure what JParis used.

Spaceclaim you must purchase the Catia Translator Separate. The Moldplus is much better for Mastercam as it will read the DPD/MBD if present in the CATIA file and you stay with one system.

[Colin Gilchrist]

Do yourself a favor, and buy the Moldplus version like Ron mentioned...

[gcode]

Spaceclaim can translate just about any file format you can think of and has some really amazing model repair tools

but it is expensive, both  to purchase and to maintain.

Its supposed to be a really powerful CAD modeler as well but I've never used it for anything more than file translation

which it excels at.

 

As an experiment I tried this CAT file with the MoldPlus translator and MC2018

When set to convert the CAT file to a solid, it failed.  It created surfaces and about 25% of the model was missing.

Then I told it to import the CAT file as surfaces and they all came in, but at least 50% of the surfaces had their surface normals pointing inwards.

I used the Surface command "Orient" which quickly oriented all the surface normals outwards,

then the solid command  Solid from Surfaces.

This yielded a closed solid model.  I double checked to make sure its not a sheet solid,  it is a closed solid.

 

So..  Spaceclaim did it  very easily .. import to SpaceClaim ,export as X_B, import into Mastercam done..

Mastercam can also import native SpaceClaim files, but old habits die hard

MoldPlus took more work, but got the job done in the end.

 

 

[Guest]

Anybody with Mastercam care to try these? 

Changed the STEP version and spec, added an Inventor 2018 file, an SAT file and a Parasolid Binary file. 

There may come a day when I have to send a file to Mastercam user and I want to know what works.  

0001058-1 REV B.zip

[Chipmakr]

.ipt did not open at all (said I needed Inventor or inventor View ( Design Tracking) installed)

.sat opened but was ugly with missing faces

.stp opened but was ugly with missing faces

.x_b opened flawlessly

 

[So not a Guru]

13 hours ago, C^Millman said:

Sorry, but seen some ITAR parts on here before.

What's an ITAR part?

[Colin Gilchrist]

ITAR is International Trade in Arms Regulations.

It is a mandate from the Department of State for Military and other Aerospace parts that are restricted from Export. (Note: with Electronic Files, simply showing the contents to a "Foreign Person", even if they are in the U.S., can constitute a violation.)

The other regulation mentioned often is E.A.R.; Export Administration Regulations.

Both ITAR and EAR have to do with the "export" of technology, parts, or information about commercial or government programs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_Administration_Regulations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_Regulations