Meshing Question CATIA V5 to .msh

[Topper]

Hello,

does someone knows an easy way to convert from CATIA V5 to .msh?

it's possible to save as:

CATProduct
stp
session
igs
3dxml
cgr
hsf
NavRep
stbom
txt
wrl

 

[Drako]

Like Topper I try to design my ship in Catia V5 and convert the data to .msh .

Here is what I tried (maybe someone is able to tell me why it doesn't work ):

I saved the model in Catia as .wrl .

I imported the .wrl into Blender.

In Blender I used the orbiter addon to export to .msh .

I tried to look at the Mesh with MeshWizzard but it won't open.

MeshWizzard crashes with the the error message:

Run time error: '6'
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It's my first try to create a ship. So I don't really know what I am doing.

@Topper:

Have you found a answer, yet?

 

[Topper]

No :-(

 

[Urwumpe]

Can't you also export from CATIA to STL? The STL format is pretty easy to convert into MSH, both formats have similarities.

Look here:

http://w3-mediapool.hm.edu/mediapoo...ndlabore/kca/rpmlab/fk03_kca_rp_exp_catia.pdf

 

[Donamy]

You can convert .wrl to .msh from AC3D.

 

[Drako]

A little addition to my previous post:

After exporting the Mesh out of Blender I used Shipedit, which can be found in the utils folder of orbitersdk. I used the function Calc/Check mesh. As far as I can see, that seemed to repair the mesh. It should probably work that way.