Pro-E (Wildfire 2) to NX3

[mgodwin]

Hello all,

I'm a very advanced UG user, but no better than a newbie in pro-e. My problem is that the company I work for uses very large amounts of vendor data (pro-e assemblies, some 15,000+ parts). I recieve the native pro-e geometry here, convert the geometry to a step 214 file, and then bring the step geometry into NX. The solids do come into NX, and seem alright visually, but after running examine geometry there are severe solid body issues, consistancy, face face intersections, spikes/cuts. These types of geometry errors result in somewhat unstable NX assemblies, and I need to try to correct the geometry that is coming out of Pro-E. I have tried heal geometry (NX), and parasolid out (Pro-E), and that made matters much worse than the step file. The shear number of files involved in the transfers makes it impractical to try to defeature the pro-e parts before export...

Thanks all for your help and suggestions,

Mark

 

[looslib]

What are you doing with the fles in UG, machining operations?

I agree that Parasolid out of Pro/E is not the best but that may be due to the fact that they are writing a V10 schema Parasolid file, which was used by UG in v13, I think.



"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."
"Fixed in the next release" should replace "Product First" as the PTC slogan.

Ben Loosli
CAD/CAM System Analyst
Ingersoll-Rand

 

[wmalan]

I hate to beat a dead horse but... In all my years of taking model data from other systems to UG, Pro/E has always given me problems. Let us know if you find the "magic bullet" because I sure would.

--
Bill

 

[mgodwin]

looslib,

We are primarily assembling the Pro-E geometry into our assemblies, and doing routings to the imported Pro-E geometry. One of the main things that my company does is to build steel mill equipment. We typically take the front end from a scraper (prime mover) and use it to power and control a "trailer" that we design. Typically, we have to make heavy modifications to the prime mover (new cabs, revised hydraulic and pneumatic systems, etc).