IronCAD -> SolidWorks & using FeatureWorks

Apologies if this ends up being posted twice. My ISP is yet to post the
content below from the message I sent last night.

Just wondering whether anyone has had experience bringing IronCAD files
into SolidWorks and what kind of results they had? I'll probably have
an opportunity later this week to try translating a moderately complex
assembly, and I'll want to use FeatureWorks to try to recoup parametric
flexibility. Is it best to translate out from IronCAD using IGES?
Step? ACIS? Does IronCAD translate out Parasolid? Does it work to
translate out from the assembly file, or must one individually tranlate
out parts?

TIA
'Sporkyman'

 

OK, we'll accept your apology. But don't let it happen again!

By the way, the first one showed up on my system no more than a couple of
hours ahead of this one, even though the system says it was sent almost 6
hours earlier.

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems

 

Good ol' Bellsloth. You can always rely on them to live up to their
name.

;-)

 

Sporkman,

We have had the pleasure of having IronCAD for a while and needing to
translate files. For the most part we have used parasolid to
translate the files and FeatureWorks works relatively well. The parts
that we have translated are relatively simple but there also have been
no out of the ordinary problems either. I am sure you have done
translations from other systems and using SolidWorks/Feature works to
get them usable again. You should expect things to go rather
smoothly.

Ken

 

Thanks Ken. I note you're using the erstwhile "handle" of one Amigo
Paul Kellner. Although he no longer uses it (I think) you might
reconsider
continuing with it since you might be confused with that gentleman. But
of course it's no shame to be confused with him, even if you're prettier
than he is (I don't know what you look like, but certainly you're
prettier than he is). ;->

'Sporkster'