Step or Iges

Keith Frost

Is there a utility that anyone would recommend to use with BricsCAD for converting it's native solids to Iges, Step or other 3D format?

Thanks

Richard Webb

I've been using CAD Exchanger. As they describe it, the GUI version is in beta and thus is available without charge, so cost isn't a issue. Seems to work well enough, although I can't say that I've really stressed it nor am I able to evaluate many of the conversions.

Keith Frost

it doesn't open DWGs.

says unrecognized file type.

Thanks though

Knut Hohenberg

I don't use cad exchanger (I hold a rhino license), but it claims to be able to convert between ACIS and other mainstream formats - so you would have to export the respective solids with the ACISOUT command first.

Richard Webb

Knut is correct. A DWG file may contain many (or no) 3-D ACIS objects. To use the converter, selected ACIS objects must first be exported from the DWG file to individual .SAT files using the Insert | ACIS Out menu item or the _acisout command. It is these files that CAD Exchanger can import and then re-export in a different 3-D format.

Keith Frost

I was missing the ACISOUT step(no pun intended).

Thanks, it worked