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Importing IGES files
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Importing IGES files

Importing IGES files

(OP)
How do you set a ProE default Datum Plane to an imported IGES model?

Any other helpful hints when working with an IGES model?

Wildfire 2.0


Thanks!

-Art

RE: Importing IGES files

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The best method is to create a new file first (using a Pro/E default template or your company's own), and then import the geometry. The default template will have all of your parameters, datum planes, layers and such.

Once you start the new file, select Insert-->Shared Data-->From File, and then bring in your IGES.

If you open an IGES directly, you won't have the datum planes, as you have learned. You do, however, have a coordinate system. If you select Insert--> Model Datum-->Offset Planes, and enter zero as the offset value in  all three directions, you will get three perpendicular planes at the model's origin.

Hope it helps

RE: Importing IGES files

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The easier method is to set config.pro to use your default templates in new imported models.

! Use default templates when opening a translator part
intf_in_use_template_models yes

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."
"Fixed in the next release" should replace "Product First" as the PTC slogan.

Ben Loosli
CAD/CAM System Analyst
Ingersoll-Rand

RE: Importing IGES files

Thank

But Can I add my question?
How do you redefine the imported iges files, as I have to modify the dimensions and add others feature?
I meet the current problem : Surface manipulation is not available for selected surface... what do I have to do?

Thank you

Malade

RE: Importing IGES files

An IGES can not be modified, it can just be patched and tweaked (gaps closed, etc).

The only way to modify dims is to do it in the originating program that created the IGES.

If you brought the IGES in as a solid, you can add features as you need to. But don't listen to anyone who says that an IGES file could be made parametric using the "Warp" tool, becuase they have obviously never tried it for anything more complex than a simple block (I used to have to put out fires like this started by sales guys when I worked for a VAR).

RE: Importing IGES files

You could create a flat surafce and patch it into the iges and treat it as a datum.

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