topic Re: Issues exporting to .SAT files in 3ds Max Forum

Issues exporting to .SAT files

anderson51 — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 16:04:29 GMT

Hello,

I am having issues exporting to a solid .SAT file in Inventor. Also, not all the geometry is showing up in the .SAT file. (Ch 4 file)

Also, I have geometry coming in as a surface instead of a solid when exporting to a .SAT file (Ch 3 file)

Can someone please help me determine the issues?

Attached is the file I am working with...

I really appreciate the assistance.

Thanks,

Anderson

Re: Issues exporting to .SAT files

brentscannell — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 16:25:36 GMT

Hi @anderson51

Are you converting the objects to Body Objects before exporting to .sat? If not, they will appear as tesselated surfaces in your CAD environment. The .SAT exporter does not perform a mesh to NURBS or mesh to solid translation. I tried it on the ch 4 part and it seems to work without losing geometry:

Re: Issues exporting to .SAT files

anderson51 — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 16:27:29 GMT

Thanks,

Could you get the other one to work?

Re: Issues exporting to .SAT files

brentscannell — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 16:38:38 GMT

yes, the conversion to body object took a few minutes but once complete it showed me that I had 16 open edges..these would have resulted in a failed solid conversion when opening in Inventor and showed a composite design. I used the body object "welding" tool, increased the tolerance gradually until I got to 0 open edges, and then exported to .sat. This resulted in a solid once imported into Inventor.

Re: Issues exporting to .SAT files

anderson51 — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 16:45:21 GMT

Can you please attach the file?

Thanks sir, I appreciate your help

Re: Issues exporting to .SAT files

anderson51 — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 19:25:58 GMT

What is this "welding" tool called?

I am trying to get the file I need created.

Thanks,

Re: Issues exporting to .SAT files

brentscannell — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 19:36:57 GMT

Re: Issues exporting to .SAT files

anderson51 — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 19:49:20 GMT

Thank you for your guidance sir!

Re: Issues exporting to .SAT files

brentscannell — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 19:54:52 GMT

No problem at all!