Big sat file issue

[m.ghafar]

Hi all,

I am trying to import sat file to Inventor, not the first time, but this time it's really huge one, it consists of 23411 solid body, i tried this on two strong PCs , i waited about 2 hours to reach 22% then it completely stopped responding for 4 hours, so i forced close it.

Am i overloading the PCs, or it can be done some way? ,, i need the assembly to be one not multi assembly, 

PC1: AMD Rayzen 2 2700x   

PC2: i7 8700k

Both have Gforce 1060 gtx

Thanks.

[TheCADWhisperer]

Why use ACIS (*.satj rather than *.dwg? 

Can you Attach the *.dwg File here?

[m.ghafar]

The dwg file will be easier for inventor to import than sat?

the dwg file is 92 MB.

[TheCADWhisperer]

I would need example to test.

But ACIS (*.sat) is  proprietary format owned by Autodesk competitor - Spatial, owned by Dassault Systemes and as such is old version 7 from around 2002 when Autodesk split with Spatial to develop Autodesk Shape Manager.

[m.ghafar]

OK, because of size limitation, i segmented it to 7 segments, and attached one of them.

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Mohammad,

If the SAT file is exported from AutoCAD or any Autodesk product, Inventor should be able to import it without a problem. SAT (Acis 7.0) is the supported version. Any newer version of SAT is not supported (import or export). The native geometry format is called SMT, the format used Autodesk Shape Manager.

I do have some questions regarding the massive SAT file you are trying to import to Inventor. What is the geometry? How big is it? What do you want to do with the geometry in Inventor?

Inventor was designed to do distributed modeling, meaning an assembly can consist of million parts. Each part stores the geometry required to define the part. But, the assembly file itself does not contain the geometry. Now, you are bringing geometry supposed to be distributed to a part. Each piece of geometry needs to be tagged and named and rationalized. I don't think you will have good performance.

Many thanks!