Exporting Parasolid from SolidWorks

Save out your Model as a parasolid from SolidWorks. Note that you will want the geometry as close to ready for meshing as possible, as performing model "surgery" in SimModeler is not always straight forward. The outputted file from SolidWorks will have the format <file_name>.x_t.

If you do not have a parasolid model of your own, you may use the On Ramp example file located at:

/projects/tutorials/On_Ramp/geom.x_t

Ensure that you are on one of the viznodes and not portal1. You may tunnel to viz003 by opening a terminal and running:

vglconnect -s viz003

Navigate to and copy your file into your working directory. Typically, we create a folder where all the simulation files are stored. For example, after opening a terminal I could run the commands:

mkdir OnRamp
cd OnRamp

This would place me in my working directory 'OnRamp'.

Next, you'll want to change the parasolid file extension from .x_t to .xmt_txt. To do this, run mv <file_name>.x_t <file_name>.xmt_txt from your terminal. From here, you are ready for the convert step. Copy over the convert script by running:

cp /projects/tutorials/convertParasolid2Sim.sh .

The convert step is documented here: https://fluid.colorado.edu/tutorials/Convert2Sim_Tutorial.mp4

Summary of video:

1. Ensure convertParasolid2Sim.sh and <file name>.xmt_txt are in your working directory. 

2. Set environment with soft adds found in more ~kjansen/soft-core.sh

3. Run ./convertParasolid2sim.sh <file name>.xmt_txt in your terminal

4. Convert step is complete and your directory now contains 3 new files: model.smd relations.log & translated-model.smd. The translated-model.smd file is the one we need moving forward in this tutorial.

Once the convert step is complete, you are ready to move onto the next step and use SimModeler to create a mesh for the new translated-model.smd file we created!