×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

solid models

solid models

solid models

(OP)
I have been asked by my companies management to evaluate and purchase a data translation software to increase our success at in house healing ,repair and translation of file formats from other systems, such as iges ,step, Parasolid , ACIS etc. To Pro/e

So I am asking for your success or failure stories with software such as Pro/e import data doctor , Cadfix , or any other similar software. Sorry for the multiple postings but as we are a mold designers I am also posting this to mold exploder looking for any problems they may have. Any information will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Scott Paggioli
Mold Designer
ABA-PGT, Inc.
1395 Tolland Turnpike
Manchester, CT. 06040-0270
(860)649-4591 ext. 139
fax (860)643-7619
spaggioli@abapgt.com <mailto:spaggioli@abapgt.com>
Visit our Web site at:
www.abapgt.com <http://www.abapgt.com/>;

RE: solid models

Scott,
   We've had some (one model) success with using Cadfix to get troublesome Pro/E surface models into Patran.  A direct translation failed due to differences in the precision between the two packages.  Cadfix did a "virtual demo" for us on the web in which they took our model, fixed the errors and imported it into Pro/E.  However, if the Patran analysis implied changes would need to occur in the Pro/E model we would have had to ante up once again to convert the "new" Pro/E model into Patran again for re-analysis.  We don't do this kind of thing frequently enough (yet) to warrant purchasing the s/w.
   Once you start looking closer at Cadfix they look quite impressive.  It is owned by FEGS, a subsidiary of ITI (iti-oh.com) who are the company that WRITE many of the IGES and STEP translators for the CAD s/w companies.  They have an intimate knowledge of the code that goes into creating exportable files (and thus stand a good chance of making dissimilar systems talk to each other).  They can create neutral files of a staggering variety depending on what you're trying to do.

Good luck,
Bob Kerila, PE

RE: solid models

CADFix is probably the way to go here.
So far i have found nothing it has had any trouble healing into a solid.
I have tried the old, fix it yourself thing and CADFix is the stuff if you are looking for speed.

Pro/E.......the only way to draw!

RE: solid models

CADfix is great!
I still heal manually to ensure volumetric accuracy.
But, I have tried it and it did a great job!

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources