I am trying to open an igs file which i have never used before. Solidworks just freezes up. It is a scan of a cavitaion in a turbine. Roughly 5" x 6". I checked the add-in for scanto3d but i can't get anything to work. I would like to be able to open this and look at it, then run it through a CAM and machine it. The file size is 240Mb. Any suggestions?
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08-18-2011, 02:28 PM #1
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cant open IGS
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08-18-2011, 03:10 PM #2
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When you click open file, select IGES from the drop down menu and and options tab appears. Click that and look at how solidworks is handling iges imports.
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08-18-2011, 07:14 PM #3
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If it is just pointcloud data from a scanner, I don't think you are going to be happy with what SolidWorks can do for you. SW isn't very good at handling this type of data...
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08-18-2011, 07:26 PM #4
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O.K. it just freezes and says parsing file no matter what option i try. MasterCAM opened it fine. Now to figure out how to generate code for machine this thing.
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