help on points, lines, curves from sw to algor superdraw

Jan 06, 2004 1 Replies
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i'm trying to transfer points, lines, and a few curves that represent a welded aircraft truss fuselage from sw to algor superdraw. superdraw will import dxf, iges, or cadkey files.



i can't get any of the above elements to export out of sw into iges. is there some setting that must be changed, or is this always a limitation of iges?



i have the solid model tubes, but i want to analyze them as mostly truss elements. so i thought i'd just import the node points into superdraw and build the truss elements there.



thanks for any help, flyboy2160


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Flyboy,

This is kind of involved, but it should work

Create a parasolid of the part, or assembly. Read it back into SW. You now have an acuurate solid with no history, or sketch data.

Create a 3D sketch, and place point entities at the referance points you wish to use. Output "save as IGES", ("options"- 3D wire frame, output sketch entities)

This will give you a wire frame model, as well as the sketch referance points.

Regards

Mark

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