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Opening large IGES

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Anonymous
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Opening large IGES

Has anyone experienced problems opening a large (33Meg) IGES file? IV6
locks up when this is attempted. The files were made from a ProE assembly.
It will not work on a 9 Meg SAT file either.

TIA

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WILLIAM H. GEISSELE

R&D Engineer
Pandrol USA
501 Sharptown Rd.
Bridgeport, NJ 08014
tel: 856.467.3227
fax: 856.467.2994
w.geissele@pandrolusa.com
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Message 2 of 5
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

I have seen this before, I sent the file to solidworks and Pro/E users and they had the same problem. It appears that large files take more memory than a single windows process can access (2GB) and thus you get nowhere trying to import them. I suppose if anybody makes a 64 bit CAD system on a 64 bit OS the problem would go away. This is speculation on my part but I'm pretty confident this is the problem.

Rich Thomas
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Anonymous
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Have you tried bringing it into MDT? I've brought in much larger STEP files from ProE into IV with no problem.

MechMan
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Anonymous
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hey rich. this was the 'hummer' file that your talking about, right? i can't remember if you and i were working on that, or if i'm thinking something different. if not - i've had the same experience. -Joe
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Anonymous
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Hummer was certainly one of them. I've had others over the years that were the same way, usually injection molded parts.

Rich Thomas

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