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BUG ALERT--exporting to parasolid

BUG ALERT--exporting to parasolid

BUG ALERT--exporting to parasolid

(OP)
I have found a serious bug in SW2003 SP1.0.  I will be notifying SW.

We had exported a set of SW files to parasolid.  Each of these files contained a surface model that was suppressed and a solid model that was not.

The translation had exported the suppressed bodies without notification.  The result was that our tool vendor almost built tools to the wrong body.

I have been forced to select individual bodies prior to export, even if extra bodies are suppressed.

Sanity! You're a madman!

RE: BUG ALERT--exporting to parasolid

(OP)
I'll be loading the latest SP after the weekend.  Meantime, it seemed like something people oughta know about.

RE: BUG ALERT--exporting to parasolid

I have heard about this before in the newsgroup.  I believe it has been fixed with one of the latest service packs..

Just tried exporting and then reimporting a part with solids and suppressed surfaces and it seemed to work fine.
SWX2003 SP3.1

RE: BUG ALERT--exporting to parasolid

(OP)
I just tried this on SW2001.  No problem there.

I was lucky to find out when I did.  We had sent our tooling vendor an updated model, and when he reviewed the changes, it turned out that he would have built to the wrong model!

Sanity! You're a madman!

RE: BUG ALERT--exporting to parasolid

Yea,
Scott B wrote:
>It sounds like your problem will be resolved if you >upgrade to a newer SP than 1.0.

But, what will he get in "trade". That is the question.

:)

Sean F
seanf@newing-halll.com
1 2 many l's in email

Sean F
Mechanical Engineer
seanf@newing-halll.com
1 2 many l's in e-mail

RE: BUG ALERT--exporting to parasolid

I'd just like to add that exporting a parasolid of a part file with suppressed features in SW03 SP1.0 works as expected (which is a good thing).

I don't work much with surfaces, but does it matter if you save as parasolid .x_t format or parasolid binary .x_b format?  Do the suppressed surfaces still get exported?

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"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities."

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