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Exporting assemly from IDEAS to PROE

Exporting assemly from IDEAS to PROE

Exporting assemly from IDEAS to PROE

(OP)
I need to export an assembly from IDEAS to Pro/E. I do not spend my time exporting each part seperatly and assmebling them into Pro/E. Is there any way to export it to Pro/E as an assembly with all different part in it?
Regards,

RE: Exporting assemly from IDEAS to PROE

A STEP translation should retain the Assembly Hierachy.

RE: Exporting assemly from IDEAS to PROE

(OP)
Thank you for your quick reponse.
My problem is that ideas creates the step file for each different part. I mean I do not have one step file containig all the assembly parts. Is it the way how it works? or am I missing somethig?
Thank you,
Regards.

umit

RE: Exporting assemly from IDEAS to PROE

I know that in UG, if I do an assembly out to STEP from within UG, I get the details combined into a single part when brought into Pro/E. If I do an external STEP out, I get individual parts and the assembly structure.

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RE: Exporting assemly from IDEAS to PROE

As I know, the ideas can write the all assembly in iges format  as one part. Try in this way! (Maybe use the old iges export command!)

Irwin

RE: Exporting assemly from IDEAS to PROE

IGES will work, but I don't think the old IGES (ie. v5.0) supports assemblies, but v5.3 certainly does. However, both sending and receiving softwares have to be running v5.3

The STEP translation should also work, and from my experience with better results to Pro-E. Not sure why you're getting individual STEP files for each part.

With the Assembly on the Workbench Select:
File -> Export -> STEP

Double click one of the instances so that the entire assembly is selected, Select return, and leave the default STEP 214 option selected and press OK. For me this gives a single STEP file containing the Assembly Hierachy.

If you don't get this, what version of I-DEAS are you running?

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