SolidWorks sketch to axisymmetric part

[rstupplebeen]

I am trying to export a sketch or surface from SolidWorks to Abaqus CAE. I want it to be an axisymmetric part. Has anybody done this? A best practices outline would be great. This is what I have been doing so far:
1. Export IGES from SolidWorks
2. Import IGES to SolidWorks
3. Remove all unnecessary geometry (lots of extra garbage like planes and sketches)
4. Reexport IGES from SolidWorks
5. Import to Abaqus CAE as a part
6. Error "Geometry of file is incompatible with AXISYMMETRIC dimensionality
7. Import Sketch
8. Geometry lies in both positive and negative X even though when imported to SolidWorks it is only in the positive

Thanks for your help.

Rob Stupplebeen

 

[brep]

I'll try this myself later, but for now:
- use SAT export from SolidWorks
- Import as a 3d part into /CAE
- delete the faces etc that are not in the +ve XY plane
- edit the part to change it to 2d axi (Hint: right click on the part name in the model tree)

 

[corus]

Is the error because Abaqus will dump a sketch so that it's centroid is at the origin, and hence some geometry is negative? Isn't it possible just to translate the sketch to the positive X region after you've imported it?

corus

 

[rstupplebeen]

Brep and Corus,

Thank you for your help. This is my first time with CAE for an axisymmetric analysis since I usually have complex solid geometry. I imported it with defaults then deleted the extra junk translated the geometry to be in the +X then changed it to 2d. Thanks again.

Rob Stupplebeen