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Geometry from AutoCAD 3D to Robot

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:31:46 GMT

Hello everyone,
I have some problem concerning AutoCAD 3D drawing. I would like to move construction made in AutoCAD 3D to Robot but in some way it is impossible. I save .dwg file as .dxf file and then open it in Robot, but instead of construction there appear some bars in various places. So my question is, how should I import 3D drawing to Robot?

Part of construction in .dwg file http://www.sendspace.com/file/htukth

Re: Geometry from AutoCAD 3D to Robot

Rafal.Gaweda — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:41:05 GMT

SHould these bars be considered as panels or bar elements?

Re: Geometry from AutoCAD 3D to Robot

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:48:15 GMT

Bar elements.

Thanks for your reply.

Re: Geometry from AutoCAD 3D to Robot

Rafal.Gaweda — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:39:21 GMT

To clarify: 3d solids can be imported to robot after saving them as sat file and activating ACIS in robot. But in such case every side of such object will be imported as panel. So for design purposes it will be useless.

So , import as bars then create bars in corect positions basing on imported ones or create bar model from scratch in Robot.

To import 3D model you should create such model either in ASD Steel or in Revit

Re: Geometry from AutoCAD 3D to Robot

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:17:10 GMT

Thanks for your reply.

I see it's not an easy way.

Could You explain me how to do it?

@Anonymous_Adsk wrote:
To clarify: 3d solids can be imported to robot after saving them as sat file and activating ACIS in robot. But in such case every side of such object will be imported as panel. So for design purposes it will be useless.

Re: Geometry from AutoCAD 3D to Robot

Rafal.Gaweda — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:02:37 GMT

justPosite wrote:

Bar elements.

Thanks for your reply.

My way, example: http://screencast.com/t/oSBWOBjGPe2p

Re: Geometry from AutoCAD 3D to Robot

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 22:43:30 GMT

Thank you for your time,
Your example concerns only Robot, but I would be grateful if You could show me how to obtain this form in Robot.

Re: Geometry from AutoCAD 3D to Robot

Rafal.Gaweda — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:12:08 GMT

To moze po polsku bedzie prosciej jak Pan wyjasni o co chodzi.

Re: Geometry from AutoCAD 3D to Robot

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:51:41 GMT

Pewnie, że będzie prościej. Więc wiem już, że nie można utworzyć z tego modelu konstrukcji prętowej w Robocie. W takim razie jak zapisać to do pliku .sat i otworzyć w Robocie aby otrzymać panele? Wydaje się być proste ale nie mogę tego znaleźć.

Dziękuję za odpowiedź.

Re: Geometry from AutoCAD 3D to Robot

Rafal.Gaweda — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:01:39 GMT

Operacja moze zakonczyc sie polowicznym sukcesem poniewaz czasami pojawia sie blad przypisywania materialu na panele ACISowe w robocie.

Ale procedura wyglada tak:

- acad: file \ export \ wybrac *.sat, wybrac elementy, zapisac

- robot : wlaczyc typ struktury powloka, ustawic poprawne jednostki, uaktywnic ACISa http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Robot-Structural/Autocad-dwg-files-import/m-p/3181550/highlight/true#M886 , wczytac plik sat

Re: Geometry from AutoCAD 3D to Robot

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:54:13 GMT

Działa, dziękuję za poświęcony czas.