Why transforms a body after importing to Inspire into a surface?

Christoph Spadt
Christoph Spadt Altair Community Member
edited January 2022 in Community Q&A

Hello,

I have imported a assembly of 4 smaller assemblies (including 4 parts and some screws and other standard parts) from Creo 4 into Inspire. 3 of the parts are imported correctly, but the main part (ground plate) is suddenly transformed into a surface in the model tree (in the view it look's like a volume). All of the 4 parts are constructed in the same way, on the same system.

i tried the import with the original Creo .prt/.asm files and also with different export files like .stp, .iges, ..., but always the same part is after importing given as a surfce (see attached screenshot).

Can anybody help me in this case?

 

Best regards, Christophimage

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  • Adriano A. Koga
    Adriano A. Koga
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2022

    this is probably related to some issue in geometry construction that is preventing Inspire to sucessfully import your body as a Solid.

    Depending on what is wrong, you can use Geometry tools to correct the broken part, or at least identify what is causing the issue.

    Once you open the tool, you can navigate through the issues with the 'arrows'.

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