Pro/E to Solid Desiner conversion?

Discussion in 'Pro/Engineer & Creo Elements/Pro' started by Andy Millar, Nov 7, 2003.

  1. Andy Millar

    Andy Millar Guest

    Guru's,

    Does anyone have any suggestions for the "best" way to convert Pro/E files
    for use in Solid Designer and visa versa.

    Many thanks in advance for any suggestions.

    Andy
     
    Andy Millar, Nov 7, 2003
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  2. Andy Millar

    GS Guest

    I use both programs daily. I love them both for different reasons.

    You can Import IGES or STEP files created in ProE in Solid Designer with
    minimal issues. Just make sure that your resolutions are set high enough in
    the native ProE files for the transaltion process. Because once the file is
    brought into Solid Designer it's geometric resolution can NOT be increased.
    I have found that there is a loss of resolution going from ProE to Solid
    Desginer. For example a ProE file a resolution of 1E-6 is brought into Solid
    Designer it becomes something like 1E-4. So again the trick is to have a
    much higher resolution before the translation. The data brought into Solid
    Designer is ready to go.

    Now going From Solid Designer into ProE is a different story. When creating
    IGES or STEP files in Solid Designer just use options and select Pro
    Engineer as the inreface and it will optimize the exports for Pro E.
    However, the data imported into ProE will not be parametric ( only a dummy
    Import feature). It which the data can be used to (1) recreate the file in
    ProE or (2) build features from it. Chances are that the data will have
    issues and repairs will be needed to make this data into a solid. My advise
    is to use composite curves to reconstruct the data paramterically in ProE.

    Good Luck

    Guru's,

    Does anyone have any suggestions for the "best" way to convert Pro/E files
    for use in Solid Designer and visa versa.

    Many thanks in advance for any suggestions.

    Andy
     
    GS, Nov 8, 2003
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  3. Andy Millar

    Andy Millar Guest

    Thanks a lot GS.
    We currently use IGES and STEP, but your tip regarding resolution should
    help.
    Thanks again
     
    Andy Millar, Nov 10, 2003
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  4. Andy Millar

    Da Man Guest

    On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 11:06:50 -0000, "Andy Millar"


    Andy,

    Kind of new to this thread but i have been a Solid Designer (now
    re-branded as OneSpace Designer) administrator and user for along
    time. we were using SD before Co|Create even existed and it was sold
    by HP. We fight this Pro vs. Solid Designer battle on a daily basis.
    We used to go through STEP and IGES and the tips that GS gave you
    below are great for that method.

    We actually purchased the Pro E .anf license/module from cocreate. It
    is a special translator designed to go from Pro to SD and back. I
    have yet to get a non-solid part in Solid Designer coming from Pro and
    vice versa. it works really slick. don't think i am a SolidDesigner
    sales guy or anything like that. i am the first one to piss and moan
    when something doesn't work because I end up fixing it.

    we go as far as to design all of our parts in SD and do the proE
    conversion for our tooling vendor and send them a proE .prt or .asm.
    that way we are sure there aren't any translation errors on the
    vendor/tooler side. we make very complex/ergo plastic and magnesium
    pieces.

    GS is right, you don't have any parametrics when you go from SD to
    pro. that is what you get when you play with non-history based and
    history based modelers in the same environment. the beauty is when
    you go from pro to SD, you just start making changes, no problems.

    talk to your cocreate rep and get a timebomb codeword and test it out.
    let me know if you are having any problems.

    (remove the no_spam_man) daman3682@no_spam_man.yahoo.com

    take care.

    -daman
     
    Da Man, Nov 21, 2003
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  5. Andy Millar

    Andy Millar Guest

    Cheers Da Man.
    Just what we were looking for.
    Time to contact Co-Create.

    Andy
     
    Andy Millar, Nov 21, 2003
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