Derek,
Like you, I haven't had a lot of experience pulling IGES things in either, but
when I have made the attempt, it only sometimes worked. I had a choice of
Parasolid or IGES formats, tried the Parasolid style first (w/Xchangeworks and
MDT) and couldn't get a solid that would work properly in IV 6. I then went
back to the IGES file and directly pulled it into IV. Stitching and Promoting
left me a pretty smart IV part. I even got cocky enough to emboss "Femur" on
the human femur model, just to see if I could. It started out as a 6.5Mb IGES
file. Hope you got something to work.
Doug
Derek Sevier wrote:
> I finally got a big IGES file (17Mb) into Inventor. Now I am seeing all see
> thru part and I notice in the browser there is a Construction folder. Under
> that has group so I did the promote and picked the surfaces. It crashes
> everytime so is there something I should do first before I promote the
> surface to make it become solid? When I open IGES, I checked mark for Auto
> Stitch and promote. It doesn't make any difference...Can one explain to me
> because I have no experience with IGES or surfacing stuff?
>
> Thanks,
> Derek Sevier
> Mechanical Engineer
> Quality Corporation
> derek.s1@donkeyforklift1.com
> www.donkeyforklift.com
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