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    Sequential Mill

    We are doing some 5 axis parts that require sequential mill. I have looked at CAST and I don't find anything on sequential mill. Does anyone have any info or reference that we can use to get info and figure out how to use sequential mill. Thanks for the help.
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    SolieWorks Step to UG

    ewh, Our production version is 2.06. I have tried it in NX3 both ways and it is still surprisingly slow. Thanks for the suggestion.
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    SolieWorks Step to UG

    Jason, Thanks for the response. To answer your question we cannot get the parasolid from the customer at this time and all we have is the step file.
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    SolieWorks Step to UG

    Ben, thanks for the response. To answer your question the reload is fast as it is now a .prt file. However all of our files are coming into one department and has to be distributed from there. That is why we are trying to reduce our cycle times bring the files into UG for CAM programming. And...
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    SolieWorks Step to UG

    cowski, Thanks for the feedback. To answer your question we tried it both ways. First by opening the file in UG and then importing it into a new file in UG. It was both 20 plus minutes. However the surprise is when we opened it in Catia 5 and it was 1 minute. Can the customer clean up the file...
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    SolieWorks Step to UG

    To all, We have a 25 meg step from a SolidWorks file that we have to open in UG (no parasoild) from the customer. It takes 20 minutes to open. When we try it in CATIA 5 it takes 1 minute. Is there any way or do we need to do something different for the Step file to be opened in UG with better...
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    load options

    Hi, Has anyone automated or partially automated the load options. Our users are constantly defining search directories in their load_options.def file. Is there a way to create a generic so you can plug in what you need and the system will load the assemble for you? I have read about...
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    CATIA 4/5 to UG conversion

    We are looking at a CATIA customer to send us files which we will convert to UG NX2. The customer has given us the choice of CATIA 4 or CATIA 5. My vote would be CATIA 5 (windows, parasolid, etc). Which is easier to convert?

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