IGES, 'X' section???

Hi

We have recently been provided with Productview over the internet
of our sister company in the states. At first this was great
export the required part to IGES, assemble into your model
and "Hey Presto" no more need to model other peoples drawings
to use in your model. Then I tried to do a drawing of the assembly
everything that was imported via iges couldn't have an 'x' section
applied to it, only our parts made in proe?

Any idea's

Thanks

Geoff

 

I'm sure when we had that problem I created a datum plane in the assembly
and used that for the section, and it worked okay. Unless my memory is fad

 

If this is just a question of x-sec in an iges, there was a thread in this NG,
begun by Kenny around the first of the month, that pretty well exhausted the
subject, I thought.

But, could we back up? I'm sure I'm confused because I see things here that make
absolutlely no sense, Geoff. You start out talking about ProductView. Great tool,
mostly useful to sales, purchasing, production ~ people who need to see a Pro/e
model, get some information from it, but not have direct access to it. Very handy,
but not if you are interacting more intimately with the parts, which, apparently,
you are. Now, my question is where does iges come in ~ at all, ever!!! You are
using ProductView (to view Pro/e parts) and *your* parts are in Pro/e, right!?!
Why aren't you exchanging Pro/e files with your "sister company in the states"? If
security is an issue, encrypt them! How does iges get into the picture, at all, if
you are both on Pro/e systems and linked at least through the internet. Did I (or
you) miss something obvious! In your presentation to the group, you either said
too much, Geoff, or too little.

David Janes

: Hi
:
: We have recently been provided with Productview over the internet
: of our sister company in the states. At first this was great
: export the required part to IGES, assemble into your model
: and "Hey Presto" no more need to model other peoples drawings
: to use in your model. Then I tried to do a drawing of the assembly
: everything that was imported via iges couldn't have an 'x' section
: applied to it, only our parts made in proe?
:
: Any idea's
:
: Thanks
:
: Geoff

 

Thanks for the repies, I'll have a go at work

Regarding the

"In your presentation to the group, you either said
too much, Geoff, or too little."

Maybe too little!!

The site that our sister company has set up is a work in progress.

In the future we will be able to see all our sister companies common spaces,
so we will get the proe files direct, not messing around with iges files.

But for the moment if a new model I'm creating requires USA parts then
either I sort out the x section issue or I redraw the part.

Thanks

Geoff

 

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: In the future we will be able to see all our sister companies common spaces,
: so we will get the proe files direct, not messing around with iges files.

Thought about ftping encrypted files?
:
: But for the moment if a new model I'm creating requires USA parts then
: either I sort out the x section issue or I redraw the part.

If you really have to go with iges, ckerides suggestion about making them solid is
the best for getting good cross sections. It's even the best way to test the
integrity of the iges surfaces. If you can't make it solid, you've got some repair
work to do. Bad surfaces can also be a problem in creating cross sections where
there is absolutely no reason not to be able to. Anyway, if surface integrity is
an issue, that's a whole other discussion, but I'd do almost anything to avoid
dealing with iges files, including getting them to send me shrinkwrapped parts or
step or even to suppress all the radiuses before exporting to iges and letting me
put them back on the imported model. Every tangency, every patch is another place
for the surfaces to come apart.

David Janes