get volume from a .igs file

[Andrew85]

I press that I am not a designer but working in a small company often I have to open and provide information on the maths.
some customers send me files to .igs
The basic information I need is the volume of the piece under review.
catia v5 sees it as only surface. How can I do to get the volume? Just convert it to .stp? How do you do that? thanks for the help

 

[AntonioV]

This is a great question, andrew, and it affects the deafening silence of the missing answers.

the problem of iges files is that they are composed of disconnected surfaces, like a parallelepiped formed by playing cards: seemingly united, but in fact unhook one another.

Also admitted to find a way to "binding" them between them (in jargon "stitching"), I don't seem to be in network iges-to-solid converters.

If I received a .igs like yours, I would try to connect the walls to a single surface called "waterproof", then with the convtosolid command I would solidify the inside.

this in theory, having never tested this procedure for real.

Let us know how it ended, thank you!

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[peloritano]

This type of discusion has already been treated before.... as far as I am concerned, I can say that there is the machining module in which the command is to determine the volume of an object (also composed of surfaces)

 

[flaviobrio88]

This type of discusion has already been treated before.... as far as I am concerned, I can say that there is the machining module in which the command is to determine the volume of an object (also composed of surfaces)

I confirm.
no need to transform surfaces into solid to know the volume

 

[falonef]

I couldn't do it in catia v5. Do you kindly explain me step by step how to do it? would be very important to us

 

[Andrew85]

This type of discusion has already been treated before.... as far as I am concerned, I can say that there is the machining module in which the command is to determine the volume of an object (also composed of surfaces)

Sorry if I ask your help again, but throughout the forum I did not find directions how to determine volume in working environment, you could give me some more in-depth indication.

Thank you.

 

[Vittorio]

Sorry if I ask your help again, but throughout the forum I did not find directions how to determine volume in working environment, you could give me some more in-depth indication.

Thank you.

There are 3 steps to join in a single surface.
I have attached 2 images with highlighted icons to use.
in the image "a" there are 2 icons
icon #1 is the first step you need to do, select all surfaces and then join them with this command (join)
the icon n°2 (compons). this command should eliminate all micro apertutures not visible.

in the image "b"
the icon n°3 solidifies the surface created with the first 2 steps

ps.
that I know, in machining there is a command... but only to obtain the max volume (a simple cube) from which to obtain the piece to be milled

 

[Andrew85]

There are 3 steps to join in a single surface.
I have attached 2 images with highlighted icons to use.
in the image "a" there are 2 icons
icon #1 is the first step you need to do, select all surfaces and then join them with this command (join)
the icon n°2 (compons). this command should eliminate all micro apertutures not visible.

in the image "b"
the icon n°3 solidifies the surface created with the first 2 steps

ps.
that I know, in machining there is a command... but only to obtain the max volume (a simple cube) from which to obtain the piece to be milled

I also know this method to work on the surfaces, but the particular design is very complex and after several hours of work I make the "join" the "compons" to eliminate the openings but I can not solidify it because it gives me error and tells me that there are still openings... for this reason I wanted to know if there is a second method as indicated in a previous post (there is a special command in machining).

Thank you very much for your help