It is not known if this technology will be incorporated into a commercial product. Once you have the data as an Inventor feature, you can then leverage all of the capabilities of Inventor. This technology preview allows you to import 'dumb' Catia Graphical Representation files (V4 and V5) and convert the data to 'intelligent' Inventor base features. Similarly the Inventor 2013 compatible preview is available until Januat which time the license expires and the function will be disabled. Free Download of Mesh Enabler for Inventor via Autodesk Labs. The Inventor 2012 compatible preview is available until Januat which time the license expires and the function will be disabled.

As part of the conversion process, the technology preview also does some simplification of the faceted data by merging multiple mesh triangles into a single face when possible. The graphical mesh data is converted into B-Rep Model data that can be used similar to imported solids and surfaces. The resulting Base features can then be used for further operations including drawings and measurements.Īfter installing the technology preview, users can right click on one or more imported mesh features of interest, and convert them into Base features (solids, surfaces, or composites) through a new context menu command. The Mesh Enabler for 2013/2012 adds the ability to post process the imported mesh data to convert the mesh features to Inventor Base features. In addition to Catia files, Inventor 2013 can import mesh data from STL files and from JT files. As shipped Inventor 2012 can import mesh data from Catia files. The Inventor Mesh Enabler is a free Technology Preview that enables Inventor users to work with imported Mesh data.

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