Taking a .model file 2D wireframe and add edges

[jrochte]

Is there anyway of taking a .model file with wireframe data and adding edges to the wireframe to make it 3D? I am using CATIA V5R15 to do this.

 

[jackk]

extrude ?

 

[jrochte]

That would be too easy. Or maybe i am missing something. How do i go about putting that existing wireframe geometry(or portions of it) into the sketcher to make a profile so that i can extrude/groove/rib etc...??? The geometry picked is not considered to be a sketch. When I use pad and then pick the lines that I want, CATIA doesn't recognize those as a valid sketch(or so it seems).

 

[jackk]

do you want a solid or a surface?

if you want a surface, use the EXTRUDE icon (GSD workbench) and select one or more of the wireframe lines/curves.

if you want a solid, make a sketch (in the same plane as your 2D wireframe) and PROJECT the wireframe into the sketch. now you use the sketch for a pad.

another method to make a solid, is to use JOIN to connect all the wireframes lines/curves into a single, closed 'polyline', and then make the pad from that.