How do I convert from SW to CGNS, FIDAP, IDEAS, NASTRAN, PATRRAN, or
How do I convert from SW to CGNS, FIDAP, IDEAS, NASTRAN, PATRRAN, or
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How do I convert from SW to CGNS, FIDAP, IDEAS, NASTRAN, PATRRAN, or Hypermesh?
I need to get a solidworks assembly into one of those formats. Can solidworks save as them? If not, is there a free converter?
I need to get a solidworks assembly into one of those formats. Can solidworks save as them? If not, is there a free converter?






RE: How do I convert from SW to CGNS, FIDAP, IDEAS, NASTRAN, PATRRAN, or
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Greg Locock
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RE: How do I convert from SW to CGNS, FIDAP, IDEAS, NASTRAN, PATRRAN, or
Is there something called 'stp?'
RE: How do I convert from SW to CGNS, FIDAP, IDEAS, NASTRAN, PATRRAN, or
RE: How do I convert from SW to CGNS, FIDAP, IDEAS, NASTRAN, PATRRAN, or
I am trying to read into TGRID, which does not seem to read anything but .msh, CGNS, FIDAP, IDEAS, NASTRAN, PATRAN, or Hypermesh. Is there a free converter to go from any solidworks format to any TGRID format?
RE: How do I convert from SW to CGNS, FIDAP, IDEAS, NASTRAN, PATRRAN, or
RE: How do I convert from SW to CGNS, FIDAP, IDEAS, NASTRAN, PATRRAN, or
What I am working on is unsupported by management so I cannot buy more software for it as of yet.
RE: How do I convert from SW to CGNS, FIDAP, IDEAS, NASTRAN, PATRRAN, or
Possibly the least expensive route would be through Roshaz, which reads in IGES files and will mesh it and export a Nastran file, a .msh (not sure if it is the same type of mesh file), and others.
RE: How do I convert from SW to CGNS, FIDAP, IDEAS, NASTRAN, PATRRAN, or
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RE: How do I convert from SW to CGNS, FIDAP, IDEAS, NASTRAN, PATRRAN, or
Here is a clip from an article written about transfering MCAD Data from one program to another.
When Bad things Happen to Good CAD Users
Stephen Wolfe, P.E.
Publisher, Computer Aided Design Report
Feature-based Basics
In the days before dimension-driven solids became popular, three-D CAD systems employed lines and curves in space, analytic surfaces, such as planes and cylinders, and free-form surfaces, such as B-spline surfaces (NURBS). Creating models was a tedious process because users had to keep track of both the outer and inner surfaces of the model. Cutting a hole in a model with a curved surface involved drawing a curve in space, projecting it onto the surface, and then manually trimming the surface back to the curve.
Solids-based systems, such as Pro/Engineer and the systems that followed it, employ geometry for curves and surfaces that's conceptually similar to their wire-frame and surface predecessors. But they have automated the production of complete three-D models by keeping track of more information. Solid systems keep track of not only surfaces but edges of intersecting surfaces. Solid CAD systems also keep track of which side of a surface faces out of a part and which faces inside.
CAD operators are unaware of these details because solid-modeling programs let them create models using sophisticated features. To cut a hole, for example, a designer might sketch the hole profile and then cut it through the model. The CAD system automatically projects new edges onto the surface being cut, trims the opening back to the hole edges, and then creates new surfaces to line the insides of the hole. It's no wonder that this automation requires a lot of number-crunching power.
What many CAD users don't realize is that in many cases the edge curves of solid models only approximate the actual intersection of two surfaces. According to a paper from Sandia National Laboratories, the precise intersection of two NURBS surfaces must be described by a 54th-order polynomial. To reduce the computation to more manageable levels, most CAD systems settle for approximating the intersection by a cubic (third-order) polynomial. The edge curve so defined usually lies close to, but not precisely on, the two surfaces it bounds. Because of these approximations there are gaps between the edges and faces of boundary-representation solids (B-REPS). These gaps are the source of much mischief.
Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SWx 2007 SP 2.0 & Pro/E 2001
XP Pro SP2.0 P4 3.6 GHz, 1GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
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RE: How do I convert from SW to CGNS, FIDAP, IDEAS, NASTRAN, PATRRAN, or
Step away from the computer ...
I'm sorry, I really don't mean to be rude and obnoxious; but if you don't know the difference between program names and file formats, you should not be trying to create files for FEA programs; and you especially should not be trying to run the FEA programs.
These readers should be part of TGRID.
RE: How do I convert from SW to CGNS, FIDAP, IDEAS, NASTRAN, PATRRAN, or
RE: How do I convert from SW to CGNS, FIDAP, IDEAS, NASTRAN, PATRRAN, or
I will check to see if we have Fluent support, but I don't think so (this is older software). So I don't think I can get those readers without buying support and this is a side project for me.
RE: How do I convert from SW to CGNS, FIDAP, IDEAS, NASTRAN, PATRRAN, or
RE: How do I convert from SW to CGNS, FIDAP, IDEAS, NASTRAN, PATRRAN, or
RE: How do I convert from SW to CGNS, FIDAP, IDEAS, NASTRAN, PATRRAN, or
Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 02-10-07)
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