BUG ALERT--exporting to parasolid

[TheTick]

I have found a serious bug in SW2003 SP1.0. I will be notifying SW.

We had exported a set of SW files to parasolid. Each of these files contained a surface model that was suppressed and a solid model that was not.

The translation had exported the suppressed bodies without notification. The result was that our tool vendor almost built tools to the wrong body.

I have been forced to select individual bodies prior to export, even if extra bodies are suppressed.

Sanity! You're a madman!

 

[SBaugh]

Have you made sure that SP 2.1, 3.0 or 3.1 does not already fix this problem?

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

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When in doubt, always check the help

 

[TheTick]

I'll be loading the latest SP after the weekend. Meantime, it seemed like something people oughta know about.

 

[Arlin]

I have heard about this before in the newsgroup. I believe it has been fixed with one of the latest service packs..

Just tried exporting and then reimporting a part with solids and suppressed surfaces and it seemed to work fine.
SWX2003 SP3.1

 

[TheTick]

I just tried this on SW2001. No problem there.

I was lucky to find out when I did. We had sent our tooling vendor an updated model, and when he reviewed the changes, it turned out that he would have built to the wrong model!

Sanity! You're a madman!

 

[SBaugh]

It sounds like your problem will be resolved if you upgrade to a newer SP than 1.0.

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376
When in doubt, always check the help

 

[SeanF]

Yea,
Scott B wrote:
>It sounds like your problem will be resolved if you >upgrade to a newer SP than 1.0.

But, what will he get in "trade". That is the question.



Sean F
seanf@newing-halll.com
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Sean F
Mechanical Engineer
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[SBaugh]

Depends what he does ;-) - I like SP3.1 but that's just me I guess...no problems here so far.

,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376
When in doubt, always check the help

 

[MadMango]

I'd just like to add that exporting a parasolid of a part file with suppressed features in SW03 SP1.0 works as expected (which is a good thing).

I don't work much with surfaces, but does it matter if you save as parasolid .x_t format or parasolid binary .x_b format? Do the suppressed surfaces still get exported?

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