Importing geometry into patran

[flyforever85]

I'm having trouble importing a geometry into Patran. The geometry was created with SolidWorks and I have the faculty to save it in different extensions. I tried them all, nothing seems to work. Patran messes up the geometry, creates unnecessary surfaces and lines. I tried to delete them, clean the model. Nothing.

Is there a way to overcome the problem?

Thanks

 

[Erik Panos Kostson]

If it is not confidential Are you able to upload the geometry here (say as step or iges file)

 

[flyforever85]

Unfortunately is it confidential. It's an helicopter blade.

 

[ThomasH]

Have you tried by converting to anoter format, step to iges or viceversa? I have collegues who has had the same issue with Patran. It required some testing to find a way to make it work.

Thomas

 

[dfreire]

Hello,

There is a specific forum about Patran, and maybe there you will get more help. I cannot give you an advice becauce I use HyperMesh as preprocessor.

 

[cohoman]

Patran is based on the parasolids geometry kernel, so it's native format is parasolids. I would first try exporting your geometry to a Parasolids Transmit file (.xmt) from SolidWorks and then import that into Patran.

Next, I would try a STEP file (.stp) followed by a IGES file.