1. Select ACISModeling engine by Spatial Corporation. You can import and export ACIS files (.sat and .sab). in the panel on the left.

2. Set the following options:

   • Convert ACISModeling engine by Spatial Corporation. You can import and export ACIS files (.sat and .sab). bodies to DS Mechanical components to create components and use the name of the ACISModeling engine by Spatial Corporation. You can import and export ACIS files (.sat and .sab). bodies for the components. If you deselect this option, then the ACISModeling engine by Spatial Corporation. You can import and export ACIS files (.sat and .sab). structure is used in the Structure treeDisplay in the Structure panel that shows you each of the objects in your design. You can expand or collapse the nodes of the tree to view the objects. You can rename objects, create, modify, replace, and delete objects, as well as work with components..

   • SplitUsing the Combine tool to split solids or surfaces. You select a solid or surface to use as a Cutting tool to cut the target. See Cutter object. body name by the following characters to insert the character between the part name and the body name, when the names are different. For example, with the character set to a period, the name would be part.body. If you deselect this option, then the component name of imported components and solids are the same in the Structure treeDisplay in the Structure panel that shows you each of the objects in your design. You can expand or collapse the nodes of the tree to view the objects. You can rename objects, create, modify, replace, and delete objects, as well as work with components..

   • Import part manufacturing information
   • Export part manufacturing information
   • Export material information to include material assignments in the exported file.

   • Version to set the format of exported designs.

1. Select AMF in the panel on the left.

2. Set the Import options:

   • Connected mesh.

   • Simple mesh.

   • SolidObject that encloses volume. A surface becomes a solid if it encloses volume./surface body to set the format of exported designs.

     • Merge faces

3. Set the Export options:

   • Compress file: Export a compressed file.

   • Resolution (Deviation is in current model units):

     • Coarse: Deviation = 2mm; Angle = 30 degrees

     • Medium: Deviation = 0.75mm; Angle = 30 degrees

     • Fine: Deviation = 0.5mm; Angle = 30 degrees

     • Custom: Enter custom values for Deviation and Angle

   • FacetSimple triangular face used to describe surface geometry in STL (stereolithography) file format. maximum edge length: Enter a value in current model units

   • FacetSimple triangular face used to describe surface geometry in STL (stereolithography) file format. maximum aspect ratio: Enter a value in the range 1- 10

1. Select AutoCADSoftware application for 2D and 3D design and drafting by Autodesk, Inc. AutoCAD's native file format is DWGAutoCAD native drawing format. You can open and insert drawings, parts, and assemblies. Drawings can be inserted as layouts. You can export parts, assemblies, drawing sheets, and 3D markup slides., its interchange file format is DXFDrawing Interchange Format or Drawing Exchange Format. CAD data file format developed by Autodesk for enabling data interoperability between AutoCAD and other programs. You can open and insert drawings, parts, and assemblies.Drawings can be inserted as layouts. You can export parts, assemblies, drawing sheets, and 3D markup slides., and its format for publishing CAD data is DWF. in the panel on the left.

2. Set the Export options:

   • Version: Select the AutoCADSoftware application for 2D and 3D design and drafting by Autodesk, Inc. AutoCAD's native file format is DWGAutoCAD native drawing format. You can open and insert drawings, parts, and assemblies. Drawings can be inserted as layouts. You can export parts, assemblies, drawing sheets, and 3D markup slides., its interchange file format is DXFDrawing Interchange Format or Drawing Exchange Format. CAD data file format developed by Autodesk for enabling data interoperability between AutoCAD and other programs. You can open and insert drawings, parts, and assemblies.Drawings can be inserted as layouts. You can export parts, assemblies, drawing sheets, and 3D markup slides., and its format for publishing CAD data is DWF. version to set the format of exported designs.

   • Save as black and white: Remove color information from exported designs.

   • Associate dimensions to geometry: Select dimensions to associate with adjacent geometry.

   • Include drawing format: On by default.

   • ScaleSolidObject that encloses volume. A surface becomes a solid if it encloses volume. or surface: Change the size of the selected object using the PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. tool. You can scale dynamically or by entering a scale value. Drawing sheet or cross-section views: Magnify or shrink the view by selecting a ViewOrientation settings that you can apply to your design, including spin, pan, and zoom. You can adjust these settings individually or you can apply one of the following preconfigured views: Trimetric, Isometric, Top, Bottom, Front, Back, Right, Left. You can also select Snap View and click a face to view it head-on. in the Structure tree and editing the Properties panel. output 1:1: Off by default. Set the output of your AutoCADSoftware application for 2D and 3D design and drafting by Autodesk, Inc. AutoCAD's native file format is DWGAutoCAD native drawing format. You can open and insert drawings, parts, and assemblies. Drawings can be inserted as layouts. You can export parts, assemblies, drawing sheets, and 3D markup slides., its interchange file format is DXFDrawing Interchange Format or Drawing Exchange Format. CAD data file format developed by Autodesk for enabling data interoperability between AutoCAD and other programs. You can open and insert drawings, parts, and assemblies.Drawings can be inserted as layouts. You can export parts, assemblies, drawing sheets, and 3D markup slides., and its format for publishing CAD data is DWF. files to a 1:1 ratio.

   • Export solids as: Choose either Solids or Hidden line curves

When saving a drawing as a DWGAutoCAD native drawing format. You can open and insert drawings, parts, and assemblies. Drawings can be inserted as layouts. You can export parts, assemblies, drawing sheets, and 3D markup slides. or DXFDrawing Interchange Format or Drawing Exchange Format. CAD data file format developed by Autodesk for enabling data interoperability between AutoCAD and other programs. You can open and insert drawings, parts, and assemblies.Drawings can be inserted as layouts. You can export parts, assemblies, drawing sheets, and 3D markup slides. file, you can also access the last two Export options by choosing Save As from the File menu; from the Save As dialog box, click the Options button.

1. Select IGES in the panel on the left.

2. Select an Import Method:

   • Use facewise connections to attempt to stitch everything together and make a solid if possible. With this option selected, the import may fail if the model is corrupt.

   • Import faces independently to import models as a collection of individual surfaces, skipping only the surfaces that are corrupt.

3. Set Export options

   1. Export using JAMA IGES subset: Check option On or Off

   2. Select an Export DS Mechanical body option:

      • Manifold SolidObject that encloses volume. A surface becomes a solid if it encloses volume. B-Rep ObjectAnything recognizable by the tools. 3D objects include vertices, edges, faces, surfaces, solids, layouts, planes, axes, and origins. 2D objects include points and lines. (MSBO - Type 186): MSBO defines a manifold body with all the necessary topology information like shells, faces, loops, edges and vertices.
      • Trimmed surfaces (Type 144): The boundaries of these surfaces will be represented by CurveIn 3D, any line in space. on a Parametric SurfaceTwo dimensional object that has no thickness (as opposed to a face, which is part of a three-dimensional object). A surface has area but no volume. See FaceSide or other surface of a solid. Some examples are the inside surface of a hole or the six sides of a rectangular solid. See Surface.. EntityTerm used to refer to any object in a 2D sketch or 3D drawing. (Type 142).
      • Bounded surfaces (Type 143): The boundaries of these surfaces will be represented by Boundary EntityTerm used to refer to any object in a 2D sketch or 3D drawing. (Type 141). The boundary entity will refer to model space curves and surface parametric curves, with preference set to model space curves.

1. Select OBJ in the panel on the left.

2. Set Import options:

   • Units: Choose a system of units

3. Set Export options:

   • Override quality to change the faceting setting for exported files so it is different from the graphics faceting setting.

     • Coarse, Medium, Fine to use the deviation and angle preset values.

     • Custom to use the Deviation and Angle sliders to set a custom resolution.

       Resolution indicates the number of sides of a polygon used to represent a circle. The deviation is the difference in distance between the circle’s radius and the polygon’s radius. The angle is the angle between the edge of the polygon and a tangent drawn through the circle at the same point.

     • FacetSimple triangular face used to describe surface geometry in STL (stereolithography) file format. maximum edge length: Enter a value in current model units

     • FacetSimple triangular face used to describe surface geometry in STL (stereolithography) file format. maximum aspect ratio: Enter a value in the range 1- 10

1. Select SketchUp in the panel on the left.

2. Set Import options.

   • Import as: Choose SolidObject that encloses volume. A surface becomes a solid if it encloses volume. or Mesh. If SolidObject that encloses volume. A surface becomes a solid if it encloses volume., enable Simplify to surfaces to cleanup geometry by fitting planes, cylinders, and cones.

3. Set Export options

   • Version: Choose a SketchUp version.

1. Select STEPStandard for the Exchange of Product model data (ISOInternational Organization for Standardization standards for architectural and engineering drawing, including guidelines for dimensioning and tolerancing. You can customize the style of your annotations to conform to ISO standards. See ASME, JISJapanese Standards Association standards for technical drawings. You can customize the style of your annotations to conform to JIS standards. JIS defaults are the same as ISO, except that JIS uses third-angle views while ISO uses first-angle views. See ASME, ISO.. 10303). Defines a methodology for describing product data. You can select the STEP protocol when you export designs. in the panel on the left.

2. Set Import options:

   • Import Method:

     • Use facewise connections to attempt to stitch everything together and make a solid if possible. With this option selected, the import may fail if the model is corrupt.

     • Import faces independently to import models as a collection of individual surfaces, skipping only the surfaces that are corrupt.

3. Set Export options:

   • Protocol: Choose a protocol to use to format exported designs.

1. Select STL in the panel on the left.

2. Set Import options:

   • Units: Choose a system of units.

   • Import as:

     • Connected mesh: Create a lightweight mesh with full connectivity information between facets.

     • Simple facet mesh: Create a lightweight mesh with no connectivity information between facets

3. Set Export options:

   1. Format

      • Binary (Default)

      • ASCII

   2. File

      • Per design

      • Per component

      • Per body

   3. Set the Resolution options to control the size and shape of mesh facets in areas with curvature:

      • Coarse, Medium, Fine use preset values for Deviation and Angle.

      • Custom enables the Deviation and Angle sliders so you can use your own specific values.

        See below for a description of the effect of these options. Deviation is the distance between a chord drawn through a curved cross-section of the model and the curve’s most distal point. The angle is the angle that the chord line makes with a line tangent to the cross-section curve.

      • FacetSimple triangular face used to describe surface geometry in STL (stereolithography) file format. maximum edge length to enter a desired edge length. The value you specify is the maximum value for the edges, however smaller edge lengths may be created. The ACISModeling engine by Spatial Corporation. You can import and export ACIS files (.sat and .sab). modeler attempts to meet your desired edge length setting, but in some design scenarios, may create an edge length that is less than what you specify as your facet maximum edge length setting, to best accommodate the design.

      • FacetSimple triangular face used to describe surface geometry in STL (stereolithography) file format. maximum aspect ratio to change the triangle faceting ratio when you export an STL fileFile format native to the stereo lithography CAD software created by 3D Systems. You can export parts and assemblies (.stl).See Stereo lithography..

Deviation controls how far facet edges are away from model edges. The images below show the effect of Max distance on the mesh of a cylinder. These examples keep the Aspect ratioRatio of the length to width of a rectangle or the height to width of an image. When resizing images, it can be important to maintain the aspect ratio to avoid distortion. fixed at 3 and the FacetSimple triangular face used to describe surface geometry in STL (stereolithography) file format. maximum edge length set to 4mm.

 

Max Distance = 0.75mm Max angle = 20-degrees	Max Distance = 0.01mm Max angle = 20-degrees

 

Notice how the settings change the facets along the edge of the circle. The intrerior is a flat plane, so 45-degree triangles are the most efficient facets.

The example on the left shows the default Max distance of 0.75mm. This refers to the gap seen in the zoomed-in (top) image. Decreasing the Max distance to 0.01mm results in more facets along the edge, which brings the facet edgess closer to the cylinder edge, as seen in the example on the right.

 

Similarly, decreasing the Max angle will result in more facets along curved edges. This example shows the result of decreasing the Max angle from 20 degrees to 1 degree.

Max Distance = 0.75mm Max angle = 1-degree

 

Without a fixed Aspect ratioRatio of the length to width of a rectangle or the height to width of an image. When resizing images, it can be important to maintain the aspect ratio to avoid distortion. and without a Max edge length, you can get more distorted triangles as shown in the following images.

No set Aspect Ratio or Maximum Edge3D object composed of a single outside boundary of a feature. A line sketched in 2D becomes an edge when you pull your sketch into 3D. Length Max Distance = 0.75mm Max angle = 20-degrees	No set Aspect Ratio or Maximum Edge3D object composed of a single outside boundary of a feature. A line sketched in 2D becomes an edge when you pull your sketch into 3D. Length Max Distance = 0.75mm Max angle = 1-degree	No set Aspect Ratio or Maximum Edge3D object composed of a single outside boundary of a feature. A line sketched in 2D becomes an edge when you pull your sketch into 3D. Length Max Distance = 0.01mm Max angle = 20-degrees