Exporting .step to Solidworks

Dmitry
Dmitry New Altair Community Member
edited February 2022 in Community Q&A

Hello everyone!

I have a construction that consists of different parts in Solidworks 2018. I wanted to use topology optimization to reduce the mass, so I turned to Altair Inspire. After optimizing the geometry I need to export it and replace the original part with the optimized.
So I use Fit PolyNURBS command to create a single part out of multiple (optimized geometry + regions that were not supposed to be optimized). Then I select PolyNURBS Part 1 in the list of parts on the left side of the screen and go "File-Save Selected".

The problem is that when I open .step file in Solidworks it turns out to be an assemblage, not a single part. 

Do I do something wrong? Is there any solution? How can I export a single solid part to use it for further construction development in Solidworks?

Thank you in advance!

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  • Brett Ramsey_20633
    Brett Ramsey_20633 New Altair Community Member
    edited February 2022

    I think you performed this workflow really well. I would suggest looking at the other save as options and see if any of those perform as you want ie stl, iges, and/ or parasolid extensions. 

  • Dmitry
    Dmitry New Altair Community Member
    edited February 2022
    Brett Ramsey_20633 said:

    I think you performed this workflow really well. I would suggest looking at the other save as options and see if any of those perform as you want ie stl, iges, and/ or parasolid extensions. 

    Thanks for response!
    I have already tried to save this geometry as .iges and .stl. Iges works better than .step according to the number of parts in the assemblage, but it still is an assemblage..

    .stl works but as far as I know I can't transform .stl into .step or .sldprt to continue working with the construction...

    parasolid doesn't work for some reason while .vrml is not supported at all..

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