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Subject: Re:Explicit Volume Creation With Internal Cavity?
Author: Dan McKenney dan.mckenney@
Date: 1999-09-04 22:37:00

Hi John,

SWARF is a slang term used by machinist to describe those little bits of
shavings created by a mill or lathe.
I guess that's a good way to describe those entities not needed in a cad
data file. :-)

The last I heard, look for a CADFIX for ANSYS in early November.

- Dan

Dan McKenney < dan.mckenney@e... >
Senior Project Engineer -- Engineering Methods Inc.

>One positive comment I have is that CADFIX seems to do a good job of
>repairing geometry once you figure out how to use it. The terminology is
>weird (SWARF is on the menu, but not in any American English dictionary I've
>ever seen) and the menus aren't all that self explanatory. But the stuff
>underneath works great. I've put through some pretty complicated geometries
>and always managed to get something workable out of CADFIX. Maybe the best
>part of this process is that CADFIX writes an ANF (ANSYS Neutral File)
>format file which is read into ANSYS in /AUX15. This means that we avoid
>ANSYS' IGES translator entirely, which isn't a bad thing. I've had very
>good luck using CADFIX, and I am still not completely familiar with it. I
>think as I continue using it I'll be able to do more and more things with
>it. I can see why ANSYS Inc. is working on implementing CADFIX as a
>geometry import front end to ANSYS, or so a recent press release says.

>John Crawford
>AlliedSignal Engines
>Phoenix, AZ
>john.crawford@a...

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4415Explicit Volume Creation With Internal Cavity?John Crawford1999/09/03 
4418Re: Explicit Volume Creation With Internal Cavity?Michael Hiller1999/09/03 
4433Re:Explicit Volume Creation With Internal Cavity?Dan McKenney dan.mckenney@1999/09/04