Converter Wizard
Converter Wizard
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With using the Converter Wizard I am finding out that I can only do one surface at a time. I have about 250 surfaces. My question is if a macro can be written and if so can you point me in the right direction. Thanks for all your help.
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Saranac
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Saranac





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Are you able to record a macro using the converter wizard, with any sort of result?
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surf I can convert these surfaces to bezier. By doing this my file size is generally smaller that what I import into ICEM.
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And by the way, when you change order, segmentation, and control points, you are also changing surface definition. Maybe you can live with that, and maybe you can't, but I thought that I'd let you know.
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Saranac
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I guess that I would expect you to be doing this type of activity in FreeStyle - or one of its derivitive packages - so forgive me if I'm not understanding something.
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the surface do have history. But to help reduce the file size I am need to live with the lost of history when I am to the point of using the Converter Wizard. I don't think this will be an issue.
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My next question is this: Why do you have such a need to reduce file size? These type of complex surfaces are, by nature heavy. I don't know what your model looks like, but 200 MB with history is not a hard thing for me to imagine, although I would expect your final product to be around 50MB.
I have many surface files that run into that size range. My *average* part file runs between 12 and 20MB.
Just curious...
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Morphing a surface in two directions is very compute intensive so I would expect that just deleting the history should reduce it a lot.
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My company is slowly switching design software at this time. Cadds 5 was our main software. So I need to be able to make things work for both softwares. Thats another reason why I am not to worried about losing history after using the converter wizard. The CATIA file with history was 210 mega and the iges file was 211 mega.
Thanks for your help and Ideas.
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Saranac