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Import 3D from dwg file in NX8.5

Import 3D from dwg file in NX8.5

RE: Import 3D from dwg file in NX8.5

For NX, I'd stick with Parasolid, STEP or IGES (in that order) if I were desiring 3D, regardless of what other CAD softwares may or may not support with their flavor of DXF/DWG. I do not believe NX's DXF translator was ever intended to support 3D AutoCAD files due to IGES being a valid option for 3D coming out of AutoCAD.

Independent of your situation above, DXF is always last on my list of neutral files that I'd want to have sent to me - DXF is or at least was limited with the spline complexity it could support. Something to the effect that anything higher than 3 degree wasn't supported.

Tim Flater
NX Designer
NX 9.0.3.4 Win7 Pro x64 SP1
Intel Xeon 2.53 GHz 6GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2GB

RE: Import 3D from dwg file in NX8.5

(OP)
Hi,

Thanks for your answer. I agree with you.

But my customer have not access to AUTOCAD and have a sample AUTOCAD assembly to import in NX. He has no way to obtain STEP, IGES or PARASOLID files, only dwg sad

Regards
Didier Psaltopoulos
http://www.psi-cad.fr

RE: Import 3D from dwg file in NX8.5

Yeah, but since you can open AutoCAD and translate to IGES, they've got you to help them, right? thumbsup2

Tim Flater
NX Designer
NX 9.0.3.4 Win7 Pro x64 SP1
Intel Xeon 2.53 GHz 6GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2GB

RE: Import 3D from dwg file in NX8.5

(OP)
Hi Tim,

In fact another customer (with NX and AUTOCAD) have helped me for the test

Regards
Didier Psaltopoulos
http://www.psi-cad.fr

RE: Import 3D from dwg file in NX8.5

Didier,

Glad to hear you have a workaround - was being facetious in my last response.

Tim Flater
NX Designer
NX 9.0.3.4 Win7 Pro x64 SP1
Intel Xeon 2.53 GHz 6GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2GB

RE: Import 3D from dwg file in NX8.5

and again, another Autocad user expects the rest of the world to read the autocad file formats, while the rest of the world relies on standardized neutral formats such as STEP or open standards...
And the problem is that the Autocad step translator is an addon to autocad, and this company has not bought it, so they expect you to take care of their translation problem.

I'm getting tired of this.
I feel like Don Quijote, fighting windmills in belief that they are giants... No matter how hard i fight, i just can't win.

Regards,
Tomas

RE: Import 3D from dwg file in NX8.5

That just proves the old adage, "Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."

John R. Baker, P.E.
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Cypress, CA
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