Parasolid geometry import in Hypermesh

Altair Forum User

We all know that hyperwork is unitless. But then i face an inconsistency in importing my geometry into hypermesh. I import same geometry, one in the form of Nx part file, another one is in parasolid, both with exactly same geometry. The geometry of part file after imported into hypermesh will have exact the same size as in Nx( let say the length is 100mm in Nx, the length after imported into hypermesh is 100). But if i import the parasolid geometry with length of 100mm into hypermesh, the length would appear as 0.1 instead of 100.

 

How can i solve this inconsistency? It is important for me to standarise everything without using the scaling factor as i need to automate my process. I would use both Simlab and Batchmesher in my process, the inconsistency is a very big problem.

 

Altair Forum User

Hi,

 

Please change the scale factor under Import>>Geometry>> Import options before you import the geometry

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Rahul Rajan_21763

Hi,

In general, Parasolid support only dimensions in terms of Meters.

 

When you export Parasolid file from SolidWorks, the dimensions will be modified to Meters and when it is imported in HM, we will get only units as Meters in HM.

Conversion is happened during the parasolid file generation itself.

 

Whatever be the units of the SolidWorks (for example, mm, inch, foot), the exported parasolid file will have dimensions only in Meters from SolidWorks and the native cad units information is lost.

 

Hope you have got same reply from India support team and for any update for this request you would  get reply from India support team.

 

Regards

Rahul R