XANSYS Message: 18543 [Go back to message list]
[bookmark on del.icio.us]
No rating yet
Rate item:

Subject: Re: What is the difference between IGES import and Pro/E import
Author: Kim Ravn-Jensen
Date: 2000-12-01 06:07:00

Please realize that there are geometries so complicated that only a
high-level 3D modelling system has a chance of creating a
representation of it.

I have recently had a very impressive experience with PRO/E, ANSYS
and the connection product. An engineer from the company who had
hired me as a consultant had spent months creating a part of high
complexity with respect to filleted, interlaced channels. Then,
however, kernels for casting could be produced by SLA-techniques, and
it only took me a few days to obtain a suffiently clean solid model
in ANSYS. This enabled a realistic analysis to arrive (almost) in
time for another design cycle.

Best regards
Kim Ravn-Jensen

Alfa Laval Separation A/S - Maskinvej 5 - DK-2860 Søborg - Denmark
Phone: +45 39536000 - Direct Phone: +45 39536511 - Fax: +45 39536560
E-mail: kim.ravn-jensen@a...

--- In xansys , choong weng on wrote:
> Hi,

> IGES is a file format while Pro/E is a CAD software.
> Therefore, it makes sense that using the Pro/E
> connection utility will be better because it is
> specifically catered for it

> When you use a more general CAD format (i.e. IGES),
> you probably used a CAD program to export your
> original file to IGES format and then import it to
> Ansys. My gut feeling is that all these conversion
> will result in some unwanted effects.

> As a side-track, I usually just draw my model in
> Ansys instead of trying to import a CAD drawing
> because I personally am rather skeptical of it. I
> have previously tried this CAD import thing with
> another FEM software and in the end, it resulted in
> more work than just drawing my model in the FEM
> software itself. Still, the CAD import way should be
> the way to go but until I overcome my own skeptism...

> Best Regards,
> W.O. CHOONG
> National University of Singapore

> > > From: Dragomir Deltchev[SMTP:drago@d...]
> > > Reply To: xansys
> > > Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 3:08 PM
> > > To: xansys
> > > Subject: [xansys] What is the difference between
> > IGES import and
> > > Pro/E import

> > > Hi,

> > > I am wandering what is difference between IGES
> > import from a CAD program
> > > and
> > > Pro/E import with connection utility. Thanks in
> > advance

Posts possibly associated with message #18543AuthorDateScore
18340What is the difference between IGES import and Pro/E importDragomir Deltchev drago@2000/11/28 
18341Re: What is the difference between IGES import and Pro/E importKamalakar Bapanapalli2000/11/28 
18344Re: What is the difference between IGES import and Pro/E importtolga dursun tdursun@2000/11/28 
18396Re: What is the difference between IGES import and Pro/E importchoong weng on cwengon@2000/11/28 
18399Re: What is the difference between IGES import and Pro/E importDragomir Deltchev drago@2000/11/28 
18459Re: What is the difference between IGES import and Pro/E importMartin Liddle2000/11/29 
18543Re: What is the difference between IGES import and Pro/E importKim Ravn-Jensen2000/12/01 
18548Re: What is the difference between IGES import and Pro/E importMartin Liddle2000/12/01