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Offline ElektroQuarkTopic starter

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Altium imports STEP file distorted
« on: September 24, 2014, 09:11:24 am »
I have imported a bunch of STEP files in Altium without problems, but this one is giving me headaches.

It's made in Solidworks, and both Solidworks (of course) and Freecad shows it correctly. It looks like this:



But Altium only wants to show me this:



And I really do not like it.

Any ideas?

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Re: Altium imports STEP file distorted
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2014, 09:18:58 am »
I think Altium has general problem with 3d geometries that include curves other than simple cylinder. I have observed distorted graphics when I drew crimped through hole components with leads having  circular cross sections (eg.  Circle extruded along 3d sketch). You can try with autodesk inventor,  it encodes step files a bit differently,  so perhaps it will work (colors will disappear though ).
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Re: Altium imports STEP file distorted
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2014, 09:31:44 am »
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So Altium's fault, poorchava.

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Re: Altium imports STEP file distorted
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2014, 09:36:17 am »
If that's a polyswitch fuse, I found some decent models on 3dcontentcentral when I needed one recently.
Obviously doesn't fix the fact that Altium's cocked up that import, but lets you get on with things.
http://www.3dcontentcentral.com/secure/download-model.aspx?catalogid=171&id=376741
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