Imported IGES file not displaying properly in a 2D Drawing

[raumechanicaljoe]

Hello everyone,

I have imported an IGES file in Inventor and I need to dimension and detaill the piece in a 2D drawing. The thread and hole wizard does not recognize the holes in the workpiece as holes. Also I sectional view does not display hatched areas of the workpiece even though I have the display option checked on. Is there any sort of feature recognition within Inventor that I can use to import all geometry so that inventor understands?

Anybody have any tips or suggestions? I am working with 2011 Pro and have about 1500 hours on the program so far.

I was considering redrawing the workpiece by creating a part within an assembly and overlaying the two pieces on top another and using refernece geometry but this might not be the most ideal method. Thanks for the info guys!

[SBix26]

If you attach the file here, someone may be able to help.  But it sounds as if the part is surfaces, not a solid.

[JDMather]

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@raumechanicaljoe wrote:

Hello everyone,

I have imported an IGES file .... The thread and hole wizard does not recognize the holes ... Is there any sort of feature recognition within Inventor that I can use to import all geometry so that inventor understands?

Anybody have any tips or suggestions?  

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Normally I have a paper here http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/AU2008/ML205-1P%20Mather.pdf

on working with IGES fils, but our server has been down all day.

You will need to stitch to a solid (if it is surfaces) and run Feature Recognition add-in http://labs.autodesk.com

or

attach the original IGES file here as suggested.

or

request a STEP from the source.