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Doug Pidgen

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  1. The Linear SmartDimension doesn't work from face to face, either from end to end or top to bottom. Only from point to point. This shouldn't have anything to do with the spline edges, does it? Before PU1, changing the part from parasolid to acis and then back to parasolid would convert these "spline edges for the arcs and circles" to radii and diameters. Why has this changed with PU1.?
  2. I can not successfully import an IDEAS model in the .stp format into IC. It appears to import, but the smart dimension do not work. Can not measure the part. In a previous posting I mentioned a very simular problem with the importing of IGES model from IDEAS. http://www.ironcad.com/support/community/i...ic=1607&hl=iges We were able to get around the problem by importing the .stp file into Rhino, exporting from Rhino as IronCad IGES. Importing the IC IGES as acis into IC, perform the Heal function and then changing to the Parasolid kernel. At this point we acheived a good solid with true radius and holes. Before PU1 we were able to get a good model by switch from the acis to parasolid kernel. This is no longer the case. Without the aid of Rhino we can not successfully import this file. Why is Rhino able to export a good IGES solid in an IronCad format, but IC is unable to import the same file??????? Please help, Doug. P.S. I was not able to attached the file, so I uploaded it (Plate.stp) to IC's FTP site.
  3. It didn't work for us Tom. The best I could do was to bring the model in as surfaces, but it wouldn't convert to a solid. If I left the default settings for importing iges, it would fail. If I selected solids only, IC said that there was no information available. I have a feeling it is how they are exporting the model, but I don't know enough about IDEAS to suggest anything to them. Do you have anything more you can tell me about it? Perhaps they are exporting surfaces and not a solid??? Doug.
  4. Thanks for the tip Tom! By having "IC using only the Parasolid Kernel", do mean to turn off the "Kernal Collaboration", as well as have the default set to Parasolid? CAD/CAM Programming aero-safe technologies inc.
  5. We are having a problem with importing a solid model sent to us from one of our customers. Has anyone else dealt with IDEAS and know how to bring their models into IronCAD? Our customer has IDEAS Master Series and have exported the model using STEP and 3D IGES. The STEP file would not import into IronCAD. We could not get a solid from importing the IGES, the best we can do at this point is a surface model and then exporting a 3D curve IGES which we can use in our CAM. But we prefer to work with solids. CAD/CAM Programming aero-safe technologies inc.
  6. I just wanted to bring this to everyones attention once again. It doesn't show up as an Active Topic unless there is a reply posted. The poll has not moved in awhile. Surely, there is more than 32 people with an opinion on the use of a Spaceball (Spacemouse...etc.). Right???? If you have not voted on this issue, please do. For those of you not familiar with this or for more information, look at: http://www.ironcad.com/support/community/index.php?showtopic=308
  7. Long Live The Mac!! Hear hear! The Mac OS's just work! No "flaky junk" perhaps.
  8. Thanks for the tip John. I have taken a look at the 3D Curve feature and have figured out a way of making the 24" rad. coiled hose that I proposed as an example previously. It is a three step process to achieve the final product. As John had mentioned earlier, the difficult part is making a 3D Guide Curve to be used for sweeping the 3/4" dia. circle along, using the Sweep Shape tool. Ok, here goes!! The first step is using the Sweep Shape tool and constructing a 2D Guide Curve by specifing Circular Arc and defining 180 deg. arcs from 24" rad. to 12" rad., all with the same center point (I deleted the default arc, and used the origin of the drawing area for the arcs). I then joined the ends and the start points of these arcs with a second set of arcs. This produced the coil from 24" to 12". Next, I swept a square shape around this coil, after using the Triball to position the square so that the outside of the finished solid would be the 24" rad. Step Two: Producing a 3D Guide Curve using the 3D Curve Shape tool, from the solid produced in step 1. Select Insert Arc in the 3D Curve Tool, and in the same manner above, construct 180 deg. arcs starting at the outside of the solid,while initially holding the shift key (the curves will be produced perpendicular to the surface without the shift key). This 3D Curve can be queried for it's length. Step Three: Using the Sweep Shape tool once again, pick the newly created 3D Curve as the 3D Guide Curve and sweep a 3/4" dia. circle. Use the Triball to position the circle so that the outside is tangent to the 3D curve. Andddd....like magic, it is done!!! I hope you are able to follow my explanation. I have also attached an .ics file with the three elements decribed above. After practicing a few times to become familiar with the tools, I was able to make this part in about 20 mins. Not bad for an amateur! Right?? Paul, how is the excel project coming? I am curious to see how it will work. 24 inch coil.ics
  9. Here are a couple of good questions for you folks in designing!! 1. How do you model a coil? 2. How do you then determine the length of this coil? Examples are a coiled up garden hose or a spring coil as in a watch. I used the Helix Tool with a variable radius from say 24" to 12" with 12 coils and a diameter of .750". I couldn't put a zero pitch height so that the coil would be on the same plane, but it would except a pitch of .0001". A second problem I encountered with the Helix Tool was the part rendering setting had to be quite low, around 10. If the rendering was set higher (which is usually the default setting) it would not render. At this low setting it displays the part very coarse looking. CAD/CAM Programming aero-safe technologies inc.
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