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Wireframe or Open body to a solid

Wireframe or Open body to a solid

Wireframe or Open body to a solid

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is there a way to convert a wireframe drawing or open body drawing to a solid?


thanks

tony

RE: Wireframe or Open body to a solid

If there was a way, many of us wouldn't have jobs right now.

There are some CAD programs that claim to do this, but there are too many ambiguities to have a high success rate.

With CATIA V5, you have two options and both of them require some manual effort: 1) you can add surfaces to your wireframe geometry and close the surfaces into a solid, or 2) create sketches from the wireframe and build your solid from those.  If you have drawings, you'll need to copy & paste the geometry into the CATPart first, although I'd just use the drawing for reference and build the solid from skratch.

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