Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for
Show only
|
Search instead for
Did you mean:
This page has been translated for your convenience with an automatic translation service. This is not an official translation and may contain errors and inaccurate translations. Autodesk does not warrant, either expressly or implied, the accuracy, reliability or completeness of the information translated by the machine translation service and will not be liable for damages or losses caused by the trust placed in the translation service.Translate
This is not our experience. STEP can be read into almost any other 3D CAD tool. Parasolids requires other CAD companies to write or license the parasolids translation library. I can under stand adding X_T and B_T parasolids format support, we just don't see it as more popular.
Yeah - oddly nearly everybody I just over the summer I talked to (process interviews) in mold making mentioned parasolid being prefered. This was new to me as well - it is an area I am not very involved in.
STEP sofar served well. But it wsa mentioned for design modifications if the design was not done natively in SW parasolid seems to be a more popular choice for direct modeling alterations.
The company that machines the parts for my lamps also works with parasolids and I've sent them X_T fles in the past. The ideal setup would of course be if they'd start using Fusion 360. That would alleviate many things 😉
Currently I neet to export from Fusion 360 to STEP import that into Geomagic Design and export into parasolids from there. I don't do it that often so it's more of a nuisance than a real limitation
I wanted to say as well, I have been asked to send files as Parasolid XT format as well. Very difficult to convert. I have to upload to Onshape then convert to parasolid, does not translate very well. Please make export option!
I just went to export my first Fusion 360 part file as a parasolid and it was not an option. So I checked and came across this thread so figured I would promote parasolid as a need. I always request a parasolid from customers when a part model is needed and always provide one to CNC programmers in the shop (also at their request). The single imported body is clean and easy to work with and most often requires no repair work like iges or step (which don't always open and need to be resent). Another benefit of parasolid is that I believe it is a much smaller file size over the other 2 which makes it easier to send around on email. -Art
Apparently with new updates in Fusion machine shops are having issues setting up for CNC with STEP files. They are corrupt or have a kernel issue. The shop I just sent a piece to says a Parasolid XT usually takes care of it.
Working with offshore supplier, I'm keep getting asked for PARASOLID (XT) files. I understand that overall it's not considered the most popular but maybe someone can pick the glove and create some add-ins for that? Unfortunately many locations around the globe still have slow connections or blocking. so more file format especially small like XT are always helpful...I hope that's a strong argument 🙂
It seems this have been a topic here for over three years and Autodesk have no intention of supporting the community with a parasolid export? This doesn't make sense to me at all.
The least you could do is to point us in the direction of a solution provided by someone else if you fail to see that you should have this support in Fusion 360.
2018 Mazak does best with a parasolid for extracting geometry for conversational programming. CAM software is irrelevant. When defining lines and excessive holes, a parasolid does wonders.
This is the issue with neutral CAD files (STEP, IGES, Parasolid, JT, etc):
Customers send files for manufacturing in any available neutral CAD but the preferred format to start programming with CAM software is Parasolid.
This is the reason: STEP files split original circles into 2 semi-circles IGES convert circles into splines or curves And so on...
A Parasolid neutral file keeps a circle as is, so CAM software (for instance Gibbs CAM) can put a G02 or G03 line of code to mill an arc.
So, our CAM programmer requests our CAD designer to open the customer's files into SolidWorks and save as Parasolid. Another issue: CAM programmers don't have enough time to learn a new CAM software, so they don't want to move to Fusion 360.
Today you can't convert a neutral CAD format to Parasolid using Fusion 360.
