If you have an assembly, and you want to iges out any points or sketches, you can't do it properly because even though they are existing in the assembly, they are still related to their respective parts.įor some reason if you try to iges out these sketches along with the rest of the assembly, the sketches want to maintain their original origin to the part that they refer to. Ok, from what our engineer figured out, here it is: RE: Export to Mastercam krustykrabs (Automotive) 22 Mar 04 06:48

x_t) into Mastercam, that way I know it is a perfect conversion. That said, I just bring it in as a 'brick solid' (.sldprt or. Only has support for the basic features (extrude,revolve,fillet,etc.,etc.) and anything it does not support (lofts,hole wizard,etc.) get completly screwed up in the conversion. I have had NO luck with said Mastercam Direct importer. Allows the machinist to supress features during toolpath creation and what not. Mastercam recently came out with an add-in which attempts to bring in the feature tree from. You can always make surfaces from a solid.but not a solid from surfaces.

Bringing an IGES into Mcam, the part is composed of surfaces (instead of solids), which is ok, but not as nice as solids. Once in Mastercam, the part is a true solid.which to a Mastercam user, is nice. x_t, which is the same thing- a parasolid. I constantly go between Mastercam and Solidworks.Mastercam can open a.

Mastercam direct for solidworks