DXF to Solids?

[3DTOPO]

Greetings,

I have complex geometry defined in a preexisting DXF file that I need to somehow create a solid or surface from.

I require solids/surfaces so I can eventually generate g-code tool paths that I can use to mill the surface on my CNC machine.

I am a first time user of VW and I am using the an evaluation installation.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

[Ray Libby]

Welcome to the forum.

You can post a file here and it would make it easy to answer. Click on the Switch to Full Reply Screen link below and use File Manager to upload a simple file showing this.

[3DTOPO]

Great, thank you Ray!

The file is attached.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks again!

[Ray Libby]

I'm not sure there is a whole lot you can do with this, it's thousands of 3D polygons. You can select all then Menu bar>Modify>Convert>Convert to Mesh. Would that do you any good?

[starling75]

Hi, does this help you?

(Change the suffix of the file from vwx to zip. Unzip it and you will find cca 9Mb vwx file inside ...)

[Ray Libby]

How did you convert it to a generic solid?

[starling75]

1)Convert smaller portions of the model (up to 1000 polygons) into meshes (Ctrl+alt+R).

2)Then convert these meshes into groups of NURBS surfaces (Ctrl+Alt+N)

3)Stitch and trim NURBS surfaces together (Ctrl+Alt+H)

4)Run solid addition

5)Convert the result into generic solid.

[3DTOPO]

Thank you both Ray and Bohdan.

I think your method did the trick Bohdan!

I would have never guess that method in a million years.

Thanks again.