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, please copy the On Ramp example file into your working directory by running:

cp /projects/tutorials/On_Ramp_parasolid/On_ramp_example.x_t .

Now, ensure that you are on one of the viznodes and not portal1. You tunnel to viz003 by running:

vglconnect -s viz003

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. Enter the following command to create the run script and enter the vim editor:

vi convertParasolid2Sim.sh

Now, copy and paste the following into the file:

#!/bin/bash -e

/users/mrasquin/develop/Meshing/ModelConvert/cadToSim-9.0-140927/cadToSim $1

Note: For the convert step, you cannot be on portal1, and must be on one of the viz nodes (machine viz003 is good). Also, the file convertParasolid2Sim.sh seen in the video may be found in the directory /users/mabl7046/Group_Dir (temporary fix). You need to copy this file into the directory where you will be working.

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. 

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!