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Igesout or stepout of surfaces?

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Message 1 of 15
Anonymous
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Igesout or stepout of surfaces?

Just double checking, maybe I'm missing something.... There is diffently no
way to export surfaces thru IGES/STEP correct?
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Message 2 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Try F1 and on the index tab type in the "word" IGES.
Do the same thing for STEP.

IMOP this is one of those cases where either I am completely missing your question, or perhaps you should consider a different career. One that does not involve using computers. I am not trying to be smart here, I only want to encourage you, in a way that you will never forget, to learn to use the help screen. If I am off base and do not understand your question, I apologize.

I think the help screen will instruct you to do a File Save Copy AS and select Save as type...
Message 3 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

What I'm trying to say is.  When I try and
save a bunch of surfaces with IGES or even STEP.  The STEP
file comes out as 1K in size and doesn't even write an IGES file.  In
other words I can't gets these surfaces out of Inventor....


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Try
F1 and on the index tab type in the "word" IGES.
Do the same thing for
STEP.

IMOP this is one of those cases where either I am completely missing your
question, or perhaps you should consider a different career. One that does not
involve using computers. I am not trying to be smart here, I only want to
encourage you, in a way that you will never forget, to learn to use the help
screen. If I am off base and do not understand your question, I apologize.

I think the help screen will instruct you to do a File Save Copy AS and
select Save as type...

Message 4 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Aha,
Now I think I see what your trying to do. Sorry about earlier stuff. My understanding the STEP is for solids by definition. Surfaces in Inventor are considered construction geometry. Am I correct that this is what you are trying to export? NOT a solid as IGES surfaces? Interesting problem. You could thicken surface into a solid, save as IGES, and then open in MDT module of Inventor Series and delete the extra surfaces if you don't want them.
J.D.
Message 5 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

From the help

"Specifies the options for exporting Autodesk Inventor
solid geometry data to IGES format."

I don't think it is possible to export construction surfaces.

 

Kathy Johnson
Message 6 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

That's what I figured.  Kinda was fishing for
a 'work around'..  😉


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From the help

"Specifies the options for exporting Autodesk Inventor
solid geometry data to IGES format."

I don't think it is possible to export construction surfaces.

 

Kathy
Johnson
Message 7 of 15
MechMan_
in reply to: Anonymous

Would SAT files be of any use to you? I think they carry the surface info.

MechMan
Message 8 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

It seems like this my work.  Although it
doesn't like very clean, but something is better than nothing.. 
Thanks


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Would
SAT files be of any use to you? I think they carry the surface
info.

MechMan
Message 9 of 15
snorkel
in reply to: Anonymous

I think saving as SAT files will carry the Inventor construction surfaces. I saved some SAT files which were full of extruded and sweept surfaces etc and they all came through. To check I opened the SAT files with an ACIS viewer and you will see all the surfaces. Hope this is of some help.
Message 10 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

I just verified that SAT will carry the Inventor construction surfaces.
Just out of curiousity what program are you taking the surfaces to? When I opened up the SAT file in MDT I had to issue the am2sf command to turn the surface from a SAT surface to MDT surface.
Message 11 of 15
snorkel
in reply to: Anonymous

I was just opening them with ACIS 3D Open Viewer. A while ago in Version 4 I think I sent inventor solids as SAT files to a supplier who came back saying what are all these construction surfaces. I had used the surfaces to extrude to and visibility was off in the inventor solid. I then opened the SAT files with the ACIS viewer, deleted the construction surfaces, saved it and resent it to the supplier without the surfaces. But you can actually do all this within IV in the latest version. ie when opening the SAT file in IV delete entities you don't want, promote the surface or solid you want and resave as a SAT file.
Message 12 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Going to MDT...  Most come thru clean, but I
do get a few errors with some of the surfaces..  Not really a big
deal.  Was just testing some stuff out.  We'll have to wait a couple
more releases, as we surface data very often. 


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I
just verified that SAT will carry the Inventor construction surfaces.
Just
out of curiousity what program are you taking the surfaces to? When I opened
up the SAT file in MDT I had to issue the am2sf command to turn the surface
from a SAT surface to MDT surface.
Message 13 of 15
cascadtx
in reply to: Anonymous

Still in IV 2009 there is no clean way to do this! You ought to be able to right click on a surface or composite in the browser - in the part or a construction collection - and *export* just that set of surfaces to another format. You can right click a face and *export* it as DXF or dwg, but who wants to do this one face at a time? And, why on Earth did Autodesk choose to use the word *export* as the term for making something available to files that reference this file? Are those *exported* items leaving this file? I think not! They are still here and yet available to other uses outside this file. You'd think 'share' or 'expose' would be more accurate terms than 'export'. I guess we all need to continue using Save Copy As then use AutoCAD to clean up what we don't want. Of course, the thing we get through Save Copy As is only a *copy* if we choose the Inventor file type. In all other cases, it's actually an *export* of a subset of the file contents.
Message 14 of 15
JDMather
in reply to: Anonymous

>Still in IV 2009 there is no clean way to do this!

This is an old old thread.
Couple of quick ideas (I don't have time to test right now).
Copy Face as Surface set option to export surface bodies (I'm using 2010).

or
Delete Faces unwanted faces and then export (I'm hoping first method will work).

I'll give these a try in 2010 when I get a chance to verify.

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Message 15 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Have you had training?

This image is from 2010, but it works the same way in 2009.

In the Construction Environment, RMB on Construction and select Copy
Object (to the Model Environment). Then Save Copy As....
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