Need Help - .IGES FILE CONVERSION
Need Help - .IGES FILE CONVERSION
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Hi, I am trying to convert an .iges file into a format I could open in inventor and edit as solids. The model in question is a detailed Humvee vehicle in .iges (NURBS) format. I try to open it in inventor and it keeps crashing, and the one time it opened, only 2-3 entities were solids, everyhting else was a surface (transparent orange).
I am able to open the file in catia, but need to use it in inventor for work. The model was created and saved in catia, as an .iges.
Can anyone please convert this file for me to something inventor could read as a solid, or give me instructions on how to. I will email the file.
thanks in advance,
my softwares: Inventor SP10, Catia V5-R16
I am able to open the file in catia, but need to use it in inventor for work. The model was created and saved in catia, as an .iges.
Can anyone please convert this file for me to something inventor could read as a solid, or give me instructions on how to. I will email the file.
thanks in advance,
my softwares: Inventor SP10, Catia V5-R16





RE: Need Help - .IGES FILE CONVERSION
This seldom happens as you always seem to end up with badly trimmed surfaces and you often spend hours if not days fixing a large complicated model. You can tweak the import and export options but this is very much trial and error in my experience.
Step is a far better option for solids in my opinion.
RE: Need Help - .IGES FILE CONVERSION
IGES can be solids or surfaces depending on originating geometry and Options selected on export.
Perhaps you are thinking of Stitch or Sculpt?
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Much easier in 2010.
RE: Need Help - .IGES FILE CONVERSION
will post the outcome,
thanks guys.
RE: Need Help - .IGES FILE CONVERSION
My guess is that something as complicated as a Humvee that the original designer did not do the entire model as solids.
In any case you will probably need to become quite familiar with the Construction Environment in Inventor to repair the model.
RE: Need Help - .IGES FILE CONVERSION