exporting files containing ellipses from pro/engineer into iges or dwg(ACAD) files, the ellipse is seen as many small lines, how do you export it so that it will see it as an ellipse.

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exporting files containing ellipses from pro/engineer into iges or dwg(ACAD) files, the ellipse is seen as many small lines, how do you export it so that it will see it as an ellipse.

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[SylvainA.]

After choosing the type and name of the file, in the export window (i.e. "Export Environment for IGES") -> "Entities" tab, did you try to check the option Splines "As Splines" instead of "As Polylines" ?

I'm not sure it still exists in Creo as I'm using WF5.

[James62]

try the following config:

intf2d_out_enhanced_ents spline_and_hatch