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importing .SAT files

importing .SAT files

importing .SAT files

(OP)
hello UG users

has anybody had any success importing .SAT files into Unigraphics, V18 / Nx2 or NX 3.  what method or third party product have you people come across

any useful info greatly received

regards .......... Gary

Moog Controls Limited

RE: importing .SAT files

Been using UG since v11 & am not aware of any 3rd part ACIS translators & I'm almost positive there aren't any ACIS translators in UG.  You'd be better off using Parasolid, STEP, or IGES, in that order.

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com

RE: importing .SAT files

Forgot that .sat files can be 2D or 3D.  The above posting applies to 3D data.  For 2D, I prefer IGES, DWG/DXF, or CGM, in that order.

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com

RE: importing .SAT files

(OP)
I agree with the not using .SAT if there is an alternative, unfortunately at this time the ACIS file is all I have from a supplier and is all I am likely to get for the forseeable future, to redo is a considerable task and so I will continue to look, I have in my mind something I read on an ACIS to parasolid convertion tool

if anything appears, or you read of anything please let me know

many thanks for the responses ....

Gary

Moog Controls Limited

RE: importing .SAT files

Do you have any other CAD systems available?
Pro/E Wldfire can read a .SAT file.

"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 .SAT files

(OP)
Hello Ben,

we have licenses of CATIA v5 R15. I may need to go to www.cadverter.com but havn't quite got to that stage yet.

I am pretty sure we have licenses of Autocad stuff within the corporation, I think the .SAT file may have come from Inventor, I need to check that, I also need to quiz the supplier a bit more and make sure they cannot offer STEP assuming they know how to export the option.

... gary

Moog controls Limited

RE: importing .SAT files

If they use Inventor, then Step should be an option. Also, if you have a copy of Solidworks floating around, it can read SAT files and save parasolid.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2005 SP5.0 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2006 SP0.0 on WinXP SP2

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