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Mesh surface into Catia surface

Mesh surface into Catia surface

Mesh surface into Catia surface

(OP)
Hi,

Does anybody know the difference betwen a poly mesh surface and a Catia surface? I wish to import 3d studio or google sketchup files into catia to use as ref parts. Trouble is that when I export them into catia as Iges or STEP they are made up of thousands of suraces. I know its not a Catia problem but does anybody know of any mesh converters or wish to explain the difference? Accuracy (within reason) is not important.

Thanks

RE: Mesh surface into Catia surface


Poly mesh is just what it sounds like - a network of polyhedral components.  A "Catia" surface is a mathematical surface with UV direction and boundary conditions. (tangency, curvature, etc)

All technical discusstions aside - 3D Studio Max has an IGES export option.  I would suggest that you use this.  You may only get the polylines, but you can run intersecting points through them, and splines through those, to( somewhat) accurately re-create the surface data.

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RE: Mesh surface into Catia surface

Just a thought, maybe you could use the "Automatic Surface" feature from the "Quick Surface Reconstruction" workbench to recreate the surface in Catia V5

RE: Mesh surface into Catia surface

(OP)
Thanks

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