Solids being imported as Surfaces only?

Turbokraken
Turbokraken Altair Community Member
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

Dear All,

 

I have faced a weird issue that I cannot seem to resolve on my own.

It is actually rather simple: I have a .CATPart in CATIA which is a rather complex solid. It is also declared to be a solid in CATIA.

Now, when I import it into HyperMesh, all I get is the surfaces of this solid, but not the solid itself.

I cannot sensibly perform an autocleanup and then create a solid by boundaries, because it is not finding the correct shape as it is supposed to be.

 

Is there an option that I missed or a setting which causes the solid to be disassembled into surfaces? Or do you think it is more probable that my original solid if faulty?

I unfortunately cannot shape the data as it is classified.

 

Has anyone perhaps faced a similar issue?

 

Best Regards,

Lennart

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  • tinh
    tinh Altair Community Member
    edited April 2020

    Try saving catia file as STEP format and import it to hm.

    As my exp, solids are not neccessary in hm. We mesh on surfs

  • Turbokraken
    Turbokraken Altair Community Member
    edited April 2020

    Dear tinh,

     

    I have tried several formats now, but to no avail, unfortunately. Still only the surfaces are imported. With autocleanup or solid create by boundary I cannot recreate the original geometry.

  • Q.Nguyen-Dai
    Q.Nguyen-Dai Altair Community Member
    edited April 2020
    Altair Forum User said:

    Dear tinh,

     

    I have tried several formats now, but to no avail, unfortunately. Still only the surfaces are imported. With autocleanup or solid create by boundary I cannot recreate the original geometry.

     

    So could you export to STEP format from Catia model?

    Without shared model, nobody can help you.

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