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How do you convert a surfaced iges file into solid - Solidworks 09

How do you convert a surfaced iges file into solid - Solidworks 09

How do you convert a surfaced iges file into solid - Solidworks 09

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I'm dealing with a complex curved Iges file. When I import the file it comes in as a surface. How do I convert this file to a solid?

RE: How do you convert a surfaced iges file into solid - Solidworks 09

Usually SW will try to knit closed surface bodies into a solid.  SW will not make a solid if the body is not fully enclosed or has gross defects.

Have you tried Import Diagnostics?.  Right-click on the imported feature in the feature tree to run diagnostics.

RE: How do you convert a surfaced iges file into solid - Solidworks 09

You can also use "Knit Surface" feature with "Try to form solid" option.

Artem Taturevich, CSWP
Software and Design Engineer
AMCBridge LLC
www.amcbridge.com

RE: How do you convert a surfaced iges file into solid - Solidworks 09

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When I import the file it comes in as a surface.

Can you zip and attach or provide a url to the original IGES file here?  

RE: How do you convert a surfaced iges file into solid - Solidworks 09

There might be a chance that you are getting a single enclosed surface. You can try using thicken and convert into solid or delete any of the one and recreate that face. Now use Knit surface and convert to solid.

Deepak Gupta
SW2009 SP3.0
SW2007 SP5.0
MathCAD 14.0

RE: How do you convert a surfaced iges file into solid - Solidworks 09

IGES can be troublesome. Where did it come from? You can find that in the header. To make a solid a surface has to be closed, i.e., watertight. This means you have to inspect what you get after running diagnostics. First use TOOLS/CHECK to find gaps, short edges and bad surfaces. If there is a general fault you are toast many times. Then use knit to help you get the surfaces watertight. It because will complain when two surfaces are not right.

Fixing things is a subject to itself. We can help once you have specific problems.  

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RE: How do you convert a surfaced iges file into solid - Solidworks 09

What kellnerp is telling you is that you can open up the IGES file in Windows Notepad and read the first few lines of the file.

The header will tell you what system the IGES was created in.

An IGES and STEP file are plain ASCII test files which can be opened in Notepad.

Cheers,

Anna Wood
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RE: How do you convert a surfaced iges file into solid - Solidworks 09

You can actually use any text editor. If you are curious about what is in an IGES file check wikipedia.

IGES5.3 contains the full description of the header (global section) on page 18.

NIST also has something on this.

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