Creo Exporting Help

[taldrich]

When I export my model as a step file (also tried IGES & Parasolid) the surfaces used to create various part shows up when importing into Solidworks.  My Export STEP settings has surfaces unchecked (see picture below).  If I open the step file back up in Creo it opens correctly but my customer uses Solidworks and sees all the surfaces after importing.  How do I make sure these surfaces don't show up when exporting from Creo & importing into solidworks? 

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[habdul]

I noticed that the imported surface appears as a separate feature in SolidWorks feature tree. It's possible to simply suppress it.

[habdul · Accepted solution]

Todd,

What if you uncheck "shells" in the export dialog? I tried that and the surface didn't show.

Hatim

[taldrich]

Hitim,

Thank you for your response.  By unchecking shells this seemed to work.

[MartinHanak]

Hi,

test this procedure (in the past it worked for IGES format):

• add following option into config.pro file
  intf_out_blanked_entities no
• start Creo and export your model

For options description see http://www.proesite.com/cgi-bin/find_option.cgi?srch=INTF_OUT_BLANKED_ENTITIES&ver=wildfire

MH

[taldrich]

MH,

I tried this but I beilieve it had more to do with skeleton surfaces then layers.  After unchecking shells it seemed to pull into Solidworks just fine.