STEP FORMAT

[Anonymous]

Good morning,

Anybody could move this file from .dwg to .step, please?

It is very important!! 

Thanks!!

[múinteoir]

Use the Export to CIS/2 format to create a .stp file

[Anonymous]

I have just done it and when I open it with Catia V5, It does not work...

Where is the problem?

[múinteoir]

Have you numbered the project?

[Anonymous]

I don´t know what is that... Explain me please.

[múinteoir]

I think you need the objects numbered prior to export.

[Anonymous]

It doesn´t work...

[múinteoir]

tested both files and all exports correctly to .stp

[alickomay]

i see on catia web site ther a few formates it can open

i exploded to acis solids  then file/exported to  stl an iges

i could not open that step file in autocad 

but it wont let me upload iges  as its 98MB

the stl is .5MB

[AleckGiles]

Hi,

I believe that CIS/2 and STEP files are quite different despite sharing the same file extension (not clever by whoever defined CIS/2). Normal Advance Steel on AutoCAD cannot export STEP files. You need an AutoCAD vertical to do that. I haven't tried the 2019 specialised toolsets.

After exploding all your model to plain 3D Solids try exporting as ACIS (*.sat) file instead. I am sure Catia can read those.

[IR8ASU1]

I was able to create .stp files via the ‘Export CIS/2’ icon as outlined in Message 2 by Johnathan, but I was unable to import these .stp files into vanilla AutoCAD (refer to ‘Import Failed’ message attached). Our steel supplier informed me that he received a similar error message when trying to import the files into Solidworks. I then created .sat files as suggested by Aleck in Message 10. Our steel supplier was able to open the .sat files in Solidworks.

[Sebastian_Eiche]

That's because the file extension stp described two different files. 

The cis/2 file STP describes a Systemline start- and endpoint, with information for material and coating.

The Step file which you need for CATIA, SOLIDWORKS or Inventor is just a 3D Solid like an ACIS (sat file) without any information, just a 3D solid