I'm trying to import a 47MB Step file (from Catia V5) into Ideas 12 (Unix) and am running into a problem. Searching here I found a thread where someone was having the same problem going from UG to Ideas and got around the problem by using a Parasolid file. Unfortunately Catia doesn't offer...
Is there a big difference (as far as user interface, commands, etc) between Ideas in Windows and Ideas in Unix? Several of our designers in Shanghai have been trained in Ideas on Windows workstations, but they will be using Ideas on Unix workstations. Besides learning Unix commands to start...
I use Ideas on a Windows machine but one of my customers uses Ideas on a Unix machine, and we're having trouble exchanging files. If he sends me a library file (.pkg) I try to import it, Ideas tells me it has to convert the file, so I hit OK, then I import them with no problems.
Going the...
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I'm having problems plotting very long drawings in AutoCad Mechanical 2004 running on Windows XP with an HP 1055cm plotter. I'm trying to plot a cylinder head drawing from a customer that is 350" long by 40" tall. I want to plot it at half scale (175 x 20), but with XP, the...
I have a point cloud furnished by a supplier that I have use to create surfaces. Whenever I rotate the model, (or zoom or pan), the point cloud and most of the lines disappear, and the surfaces turn into blocks showing the real estate the surface takes up. When I finish rotating, the point...
I received some drawings from a customer where the revision block and hole chart were cut and pasted from an Excel spreadsheet. I am sending these drawings out for quote and tried to save them as a DXF and DWG. When I do this, the rev block and hole chart do not show up in the DXF or DWG file...
