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I try to import some 2D data with the option "Data from File". I tried many things in autocad like closed polylines or blocks. However when I import the sketch there are open lines and overlaps between curves and lines. So I guess it has something to do with the import routine. Then I changed some config.pro settings but this didn't helped either. I have Creo Elements Pro 5 (m170 education).
I don't know what to do after 7 hours trying to import 2D data. Could it be that this expensive professional software cannot handle 2D files? Or has somebody a solution for a better import or an after import fix?
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Hi Christian,
Try this approach:
HTH,
Jonathan
The sketcher has a solver and it is trying to solve the DXF import. Try opening it in a drawing instead. Edit it to what you want the sketch to be and then export it again to DXF. If the DXF is simple enough, the solver will only apply dimensions to the geometry. Sketcher is -not- a way to make a simple series of curves. It is a very sophisticated piece of software.
You can also open the DXF as a part. Next you create a sketch and you can project the imported curves to the sketch. the two will have an associativity until you break that associativity (such as saving that sketch to a *.sec file). But once you break the associativity, you also need to provide the data to make that sketch parametric.
Creo is -NOT- Autocad... Creo is a real CAD system
Welcome to the forum!
Thank you for your answer.
Open the DXF in the drawing mode and save it as DXF or DRW for reimport to sketcher doesn't help. It looks the same and sadly my DXF is not simple.
To open it as a part and create a sketch..., there I see the curves and lines but I don't know how to project it to gain a new sketch. Or do you mean I need to redraw it and the projection is only for the support?
Maybe I think to simple for this sophisticated piece of software. I only want to extrude an existing 2D-DXF to an 3D-part. I can understand that the sketcher has a solver (and take everything apart) but it would be nice that I could configure or teach it to solve my specific problem. "It looks to me that it can translate a sentence only to single words and is not able to form a sentence again."
I can also trimm the overlapping none closed sections but there are many of them and with some it is not working. And I think a software should make the work more easy and fast and not complex and time consuming.
Hi Christian,
Try this approach:
HTH,
Jonathan
Hi Jonathan,
Thank you very much for explaining it in detail. It is really working and it seems that this way has the fewest mouse clicks to get the wanted result.
Cheers,
Christian
Use Edge must be the WF term for Project in Creo sketcher.
Ok I see. I am using a german Creo and it is the edge term. That is why I couldn't find something with "Project" or similar in german.
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I must admit that I didn't immediately 'get' the "project" instruction either - possibly because I chose to create the sketch on a plane coincident with the DXF, and therefore I didn't think of it as "projecting" the entities.
Terminology in Creo can be very confusing. Throw in language differences and I don't know how you guys do it
Glad the problem is resolved.