Exporting from solid edge to ansys 10

[philpennington]

Hi,
I am trying to export from solid edge in to ansys, however for some reason it is getting scaled down by a factor of around 25-26 when going into ansys, presumably somewhere along the lines it is getting converted from millimetres to inches. Does anyone know how this problem can be solved?

Cheers
Phil

[Travis Garrison]

Ansys classic? It doesn't have a defined unit system like Solidworks. It's up to you to keep track of it. Your problem is most likely in Solidworks, make sure your modeling options match your export options. Export options are set at the save screen.

[James Waltman]

Edge, Travis.
He said Solid Edge. Remember that one? You used it every day for a good stretch there. Then you stop using it for two months and you've already formed some sort of mental block against it, huh.

Sorry, I have no advice for the original post.

[Brian Perry]

Phil, when I have used Ansys 10, it used metres as the basic units but geometry exported from solid edge is typically in inches or millimetres. You could try changing the units to metres in the solid edge file properties before exporting.

If that doesn't work, I would suggest taking your step or iges file into autocad or mechanical desktop and scale there and save it again before importing into ansys.

good luck

[Travis Garrison]

Too funny. Same advice though if you're in classic and not the workbench ansys has no units, so the conversion is happening in your cad system, same advice, make sure your modeling options match your export options (options menu and the iges options listed during the save screen).

God I hated solid edge...

[Sathersc]

Other than drawing space frames, what's wrong with Solid Edge? Sure Femap express is basically a waste of time, but Solid Edge has the easiest and most intuitive learning curve of any CAD program I've run across so far. I've at least been able to find a work around for anything I could possibly need to model in it.

[philpennington]

cheers guys I think I'm sorted, just scaled it in ansys in the end. Ive just moved to SE from prodesktop which to me was infinitely worse. SE seems to be working pretty well for me to be honest,

Cheers
Phil

[Brett Neale]

Originally posted by Sathersc:
Other than drawing space frames, what's wrong with Solid Edge? Sure Femap express is basically a waste of time, but Solid Edge has the easiest and most intuitive learning curve of any CAD program I've run across so far. I've at least been able to find a work around for anything I could possibly need to model in it.

Agree 100%. Our Virtual Cars have been designed completely on Solid Edge for the past 4 years to my knowledge (from 2004 til now). Probably used it before then too...

[mtg]

Originally posted by James Waltman:
Edge, Travis.
He said Solid Edge. Remember that one? You used it every day for a good stretch there. Then you stop using it for two months and you've already formed some sort of mental block against it, huh.

Sorry, I have no advice for the original post.

I think we're all still in denial that we ever used it in the first place.

Sorry I don't have any useful advice either, other than to avoid Solid Edge.