Breaking up an IGES assembly

[Nose Bleed]

Hi all,



For the first time, I was sent an assembly in IGES format. Is there a way to break up this assembly (pro automatically converts it to a prt file) so that I can work with the separate pieces?



Thanks in advance!

 

[Lazar]

Ouch! I had to do this one time and luckily it wasn't a very complex assembly. The method I used to go about it is still tedious though.



Essentially, I saved the imported part as a different part name for each component in the assembly. Then I redefined the imported geometry (in each component) to delete the appropiate surfaces in order to get the part model. Then I built the assembly by aligning the CSYS in each of the new models.



Like I said, VERY tedious & somewhat time consuming, but luckily, not a lot of parts or even complex geometry.



I have heard of other 3rd party software (e.g. CADfix) that can do what you want, but I don't know enough about them to guarantee results.



Hopefully, another user will have a better alternative than mine.



Good luck.



L

 

[Speling]

Nose Bleed

 

[armyes13]

Possible solutions:

~Try importing the IGES as an assy

~Ask your source to export the assy as STEP, and bring the files as an assy when you open it (this won't fail).

~if you still want IGES files, ask your source to check off the assy option when exporting the assy or convert STEP ( if u get it) to IGES

 

[Nose Bleed]

Hmm - didn't realize it was that tedious. Thank you all for your advice.

 

[donha]

I knew this was covered before.

http://www.proecentral.com/portal/forum/msgDetail.asp?msg_id=3182&for_id=29

 

[Nose Bleed]

Thanks Donha!

 

[Lazar]

If I knew then, what I knew now....DAMN!!! That is so simple it's brilliant.



I don't know how fast this method works in Pro/2001, but I tried it in Wildfire and with the pre-selection tools it is very quick.

 

[Huug]

And that the accepted solution in the mentioned thread was mine! Kewl!



Concerning the colours: if you want the generated parts have the same colour as the imported quilts, do the following in assembly: choose from the appearances menu #modify from model and select one of the coloured imported quilts. Choose #ok. Now select the part created from that quilt and choose #set. Somewhat time consuming when you have many parts with many different colours, but the colours are at least the same as the import.



Huug

 

[Nose Bleed]

Huug - you're huge on the topic