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Re: New Model Posted - 2004 Robot Controller
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Originally Posted by Ed Sparks
I need a little verification help.

I'm using INVENTOR 6 now and would like to verify that the IGES, ACIS(SAT), and STEP files import into other CAD platforms.

Could a few of you import the 2004 RC into PRO E, SolidWorks, SolidEdge, etc and verify that things work out.

Thanks in advance.
The INV package looks quite nice in Inventor 7, and appears to work without issue.

In Pro/E 2001 Student Edition, the IGES package doesn't work (looks like only curves are displayed; all solids and planes don't exist), either as a converted part or assembly. The SAT package won't load at all (except for the co-ordinate system), again in both part and assembly modes. The STEP package works as usual in assembly mode (with some loss of incidental detail, like some colours, and the decals), but does not function as a single part (solids are out of position and overlapping, colour is all gone). I'm not sure if you've ever noticed this, but the STEP files, when imported as assemblies, always create a nested assembly; the outer assembly contains a co-ordinate system and the inner assembly, and the inner assembly contains the individual parts. It's not really a problem, just a curiosity. All of the above is pretty much par for the course for importing into this version of Pro/E; I almost exclusively use STEP files imported as assemblies, because they seem the most interoperable.

Also, which version of the STEP standard are you outputting to? I think it's 214, but I'm not sure; I have had some issues with version 203 STEP files, but I'm not sure if it was the very complex geometry that I was trying to get from Inventor, or the format itself being unrecognized by this extremely out-of-date copy of Pro/E.

Aside: Pro/E 2001 Student Edition is a very early release (datecode) of the 2001 version; it's full of bugs and missing numerous improvements that have been made over the last 5 years. It's not surprising at all that it can't understand many of the file formats. It even crashes on .dxf processing.