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Importing files from Magics 18 for use with FEA in NX

Importing files from Magics 18 for use with FEA in NX

Importing files from Magics 18 for use with FEA in NX

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Hi Guys,

First post here after a long time browsing for help and excellent tips.

I am currently working on a project where I am trying to optimise the design of a bike crank for use with direct metal laser sinterning. I have modelled the part with NX 9 and successfully imported it into magics, where I have turned the surface model into a lattice mesostructure. As magics is primarily for creating STL files for use with 3D printing, I am having a hard time getting a file that i can re import in to NX to use the Nastran solver to run FEA on. Currently I have managed to get the file into NX by converting the magics file to DXF, this has two issues though, the file is huge, and I can't seem to do anything with it in the advanced simulation? The part just disappears.

the file types that I can export to are:

.magics
.stl (doesnt work)
.MatAMX
.amf
.mgx
.matPart
.mdck
.ply (doesnt work)
.dxf - very large files, cannot mesh?
.zpr
.wrl
.vrml
.pdf
.igs (fails import to nx)
.udm
.asc

Any help on this will be really appreciated. Thanks

Simon

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