imported step files from Pro-E: cylindrical faces divided into 2 faces
imported step files from Pro-E: cylindrical faces divided into 2 faces
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I am having trouble with step files imported into UG from Pro-E having their faces divided into 2 faces. This makes it impossible to do a resize faces and is just annoying in general.
Is anyone else having this problem, and can it be fixed somehow?
Is anyone else having this problem, and can it be fixed somehow?





RE: imported step files from Pro-E: cylindrical faces divided into 2 faces
NX 5.0.3.2 MoldWizard
RE: imported step files from Pro-E: cylindrical faces divided into 2 faces
RE: imported step files from Pro-E: cylindrical faces divided into 2 faces
Getting foreign cad data form step there is a special step option in the def file to add :
DO_IMPORT_MERGING_REDUNDANT_TOPOLOGY = On
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RE: imported step files from Pro-E: cylindrical faces divided into 2 faces
RE: imported step files from Pro-E: cylindrical faces divided into 2 faces
RE: imported step files from Pro-E: cylindrical faces divided into 2 faces
RE: imported step files from Pro-E: cylindrical faces divided into 2 faces
Cheers
Hudson
RE: imported step files from Pro-E: cylindrical faces divided into 2 faces
RE: imported step files from Pro-E: cylindrical faces divided into 2 faces
RE: imported step files from Pro-E: cylindrical faces divided into 2 faces
Probably just do the delete face thing if you want to get rid of the second half faces.
Cheers
Hudson
RE: imported step files from Pro-E: cylindrical faces divided into 2 faces
RE: imported step files from Pro-E: cylindrical faces divided into 2 faces
I have a couple of CATIA parts as exported to STEP and IGES. They each contain a block and a simple hole. Very simple geometry that I obtained to test with.
In NX-2 if you import the STEP file the double up face inside the hole is actually deleted upon importing it in to NX. All later versions plus the iges file and the original inside CATIA do exhibit the two faces inside the hole. So here's a tip to try importing it first to NX-2 perhaps.
NX-2 and NX-3 The Join Faces command works very well for a range of simple examples and can be found under Edit>Face>Join Face. It appears to require only one selection pick in most cases so I can see why it is favoured.
After NX-4 the Join Face command appears to have been discontinued, but delete face does work. It appears that delete face wouldn't work in NX-2 but does in NX-3 onward.
At NX-5 Edit>Face is replaced with new tools under direct modelling. So in either NX-4 or NX-5 you will need to at least pick each of the faces that you wish to remove, using either version of the delete face command.
It seems to me like the join face command was better at least in simple examples, but that for anything more complex it could perhaps have the potential to be difficult to control. I'd like to hear more comment about the relative merits of the changes to this command and the translators over the versions and whether what I'm reporting gels with the versions you are variously posting about.
Best Regards
Hudson
RE: imported step files from Pro-E: cylindrical faces divided into 2 faces
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RE: imported step files from Pro-E: cylindrical faces divided into 2 faces
I knew that already but it is nevertheless a good explanation. I was just curious as to why NX-2 imported the STEP file as periodic whereas the later versions, the IGES and indeed the native file in CATIA were all non periodic. I was hoping some obscure setting change in the STEP translator may solve our poster's original problem.
Cheers
Hudson
RE: imported step files from Pro-E: cylindrical faces divided into 2 faces
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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RE: imported step files from Pro-E: cylindrical faces divided into 2 faces
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RE: imported step files from Pro-E: cylindrical faces divided into 2 faces
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