IGES & STEP CAD file issues

[christooss]

Jeremiah Flerchinger wrote:
> I was curious how many people have been playing with the Neo CAD files?
> After I found the FreeRunner would be different in case design from the
> 1973, I held off on using the files.  Since no-one has posted
> conversions of the new Pro/E files I decided to go back & look at the
> old IGES & STEP files and plan modifications I'd like to make.
>
> Do the 1973 IGES and/or STEP files work well for anyone?  VariCAD either
> crashes (STEP) or returns a failure to convert dialog (IGES).  Salome
> loads the STEP model but has all kind of geometries that go in the wrong
> directions (inverted buttons going out of case instead of in, etc). gCAD
> does about the same as Salome.
>
> I'm trying to install a 30 day trial version of Pro/E Wildfire 4.0 right
> now.  If I'm lucky I can run it in Wine and I can see if it can export
> models that work any better for me.
>
>
>   
Please wirte if it works.
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