I'm building a chassis for FSAE and have been trying to import some form of sketch into Patran to perform FEA on it.
Exporting the Solidworks part as an .xmt parasolid populates in Patran but is there a way to export just the sketch (points and lines) from Solidworks that will populate in Patran? I'm using very simple beam elements for the FEA so importing a file with just the nodes and curves already there would greatly simplify my meshing and analysis.
I can't export the Solidworks sketch as a parasolid or IGES because it's zero-thickness, but it will export as a STEP. Unfortunately I think the zero-thickness issue throws errors on importing the STEP into Patran as it returns: Unexpected subprocess termination. Reason (signal) = 40960. Any guidance would be great, thanks!
Exporting the Solidworks part as an .xmt parasolid populates in Patran but is there a way to export just the sketch (points and lines) from Solidworks that will populate in Patran? I'm using very simple beam elements for the FEA so importing a file with just the nodes and curves already there would greatly simplify my meshing and analysis.
I can't export the Solidworks sketch as a parasolid or IGES because it's zero-thickness, but it will export as a STEP. Unfortunately I think the zero-thickness issue throws errors on importing the STEP into Patran as it returns: Unexpected subprocess termination. Reason (signal) = 40960. Any guidance would be great, thanks!
