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I imported a file sent to me as an iges. It is a surface model and I want to know if there is an easy way to change it from a surface to a solid model?
Bob,
Not possible in Autocad. However, inventor or solidworks are able to recognize surfaces and automatically converts them to solids. Then the plug-ins are able to recognize the features (extrusions, fillets, etc.) & recreates them in the feature tree for further/future mods.
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| Comment | A follow up to his answer. We were able to stitch the surfaces together and then subtracting that from the solid model. Which it did. This was done in Mechanical Desktop. | ||
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