Importing Pro Engineer data into XSI 4.0

[janina-overley]

Hi there

I'm looking for help on how best to get 3D object data from Pro Engineer into XSI 4.0.

We've been exporting from ProEngineer is .iges files, which XSI loads ok except they come in very very heavy, consisting entirely of Nurbs surfaces which than (for the purposes of the job in hand) need conversion to polygonal objects.

One iges file that we need to convert contains some 5000 nurbs surfaces.

Is there any way of batch converting them?

Or more usefully is there a file format with which Pro Engineer can output polygonal meshes that XSI can then read?

Anyone with experience in this area I'd be glad for your advice

jON

[brunob]

Hi, there is a good way, if you use Viewpoints Interchange Translation tool. Interchange read the ProE-Render-Files (.slp), and can export .hrc or .dsc data in a very good geomtry. Other good Results via export of .obj-Files, which you can read direct in XSI.

[janina-overley]

Thanks fella

We ended up using Rhino to convert the ProEngineer surfaces to polys (in .obj), which worked well, except even flat surfaces ended up highly fragmented, so I wrote a script to run the poly-reduction tools on each object once the scene was in Soft.

jON