IGES, 'X' section???

I'm sure when we had that problem I created a datum plane in the assembly and used that for the section, and it worked okay. Unless my memory is fad

IGES models are most of the time imported as surface models (with errors). Try redefine -> heal geometry to fix the model. This trick at least worked to show IGES models with correct hidden lines in drawings, dont know if it works for x-sections though.

If this is just a question of x-sec in an iges, there was a thread in this NG, begun by Kenny around the first of the month, that pretty well exhausted the subject, I thought.

But, could we back up? I'm sure I'm confused because I see things here that make absolutlely no sense, Geoff. You start out talking about ProductView. Great tool, mostly useful to sales, purchasing, production ~ people who need to see a Pro/e model, get some information from it, but not have direct access to it. Very handy, but not if you are interacting more intimately with the parts, which, apparently, you are. Now, my question is where does iges come in ~ at all, ever!!! You are using ProductView (to view Pro/e parts) and *your* parts are in Pro/e, right!?! Why aren't you exchanging Pro/e files with your "sister company in the states"? If security is an issue, encrypt them! How does iges get into the picture, at all, if you are both on Pro/e systems and linked at least through the internet. Did I (or you) miss something obvious! In your presentation to the group, you either said too much, Geoff, or too little.

David Janes

Sounds like they are sending you wireframe iges files - You should have no problems creating x-sects w/ solid iges models

Thanks for the repies, I'll have a go at work

Regarding the

"In your presentation to the group, you either said too much, Geoff, or too little."

Maybe too little!!

The site that our sister company has set up is a work in progress.

In the future we will be able to see all our sister companies common spaces, so we will get the proe files direct, not messing around with iges files.

But for the moment if a new model I'm creating requires USA parts then either I sort out the x section issue or I redraw the part.

Thanks

Geoff

: In the future we will be able to see all our sister companies common spaces, : so we will get the proe files direct, not messing around with iges files.

Thought about ftping encrypted files? : : But for the moment if a new model I'm creating requires USA parts then : either I sort out the x section issue or I redraw the part.

If you really have to go with iges, ckerides suggestion about making them solid is the best for getting good cross sections. It's even the best way to test the integrity of the iges surfaces. If you can't make it solid, you've got some repair work to do. Bad surfaces can also be a problem in creating cross sections where there is absolutely no reason not to be able to. Anyway, if surface integrity is an issue, that's a whole other discussion, but I'd do almost anything to avoid dealing with iges files, including getting them to send me shrinkwrapped parts or step or even to suppress all the radiuses before exporting to iges and letting me put them back on the imported model. Every tangency, every patch is another place for the surfaces to come apart.

David Janes