John Richards Sr. Mech. Engr.
Rockwell Collins Flight Dynamics
There are only 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't. RE: Export to Mastercam rocheey (Industrial)1 Apr 04 11:26Point of interest: MasterCAM's AutoCAD importer will bring in both solids, and 2d entities RE: Export to Mastercam krustykrabs (Automotive)1 Apr 04 11:37JNR:
The reason I've turned to the iges files is because, parasolid file only brings in solids, no points or sketches.
Not looking for edge curves, need the 3d sketches and points in the file. It seems to be an issue with how the sketches are created and what mode they are created in, otherwise, Solidworks is not iges out properly.
Still trying to work it out with SolidWorks support. RE: Export to Mastercam krustykrabs (Automotive)2 Apr 04 06:44ok, from what our engineer figured out, here it is:
If you have an assembly, and you want to iges out any points or sketches, you can't do it properly because even though they are existing in the assembly, they are still related to their respective parts.
For some reason if you try to iges out these sketches along with the rest of the assembly, the sketches want to maintain their original origin to the part that they refer to.
This is why when I iges it out, these sketches are coming in out of whack, they are actually coming in with respect to their original origin on the part.
To solve this, we've had to create a new dummy part(not in assembly), insert any sketch, be it points or a line, and save it. Then we open up the assembly, and insert the dummy part, aligning the origins. Then edit the dummy sketch (delete entitities originally created when we saved off the dummy part), and re-create the sketches we want to iges out; either via point or convert entities, depending on what we need. then save that sketch.
Now when you save out the iges file since the origins are aligned, it will have the sketches we need where they are supposed to be in the final assembly.
Can I get some feedback on this. Is this a flaw in the way Solidworks handles the iges translation? RE: Export to Mastercam CorBlimeyLimey (Mechanical)2 Apr 04 10:21
krustykrabs
What is your purpose for the sketches & points. I am not being critical of your procedure but am interested in learning why they would be needed. I am not overly familiar with CAM but I thought that Mastercam uses the solid data rather than sketches & points. from (the City of) Barrie, Ontario.
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film. RE: Export to Mastercam Rocko (Industrial)2 Apr 04 10:52All Cam packages can and will use Sketches/lines and points. I understand where Krusty is coming from , i have suppliers who use Mastercam , we basically have set up sending parasolid files, unless 2d things like sketches showing data for tool making, we then use the mastercam iges output command from SW and make sketches shown/exported in the iges. RE: Export to Mastercam krustykrabs (Automotive)2 Apr 04 12:19We need these sketches to cnc cut along them to scribe min/max trim lines around our fixtures.
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