import data from catia

[stephan_MA]

does anyone have experience with importing data from catia??

any help would be aprecciated.

regards
S.Wolf

[CT]

Stephan,

I believe you can export IGES files from Catia. Then import straight to Max.

Hope this helps,

Chris.

[ihavenofish]

iges files and max are a bad mix. max does not import half the entities correctly. using powersolids to import is a good option, but unfortunately CATIA's iges implementation is sufficiently lack lustre to make this unusable most of the time (at least on my models)

deep exploration has a new CATIA module, but there is no V5 support as of yet, and your object will end up as polygons when it gets to max(though you get a nice clean mesh from what i have seen)

i tend to use STL. it gives a crappy mesh, and takes ages to import into max, but it always works.

hope some of that helps a bit

later