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Tim Olson  
#1 Posted : Thursday, June 23, 2011 11:52:47 AM(UTC)
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What does ACIS stand for?

ACIS stands for Alan (Grayer), Charles (Lang), Ian (Braid) System. They were the 3 people at Three-Space Ltd who initially wrote the solid modeler for Spatial Technology. ACIS is the geometry kernel that drives ViaCAD & Shark. Prior to ACIS they developed ROMULUS and later ParaSolid. As for the files ACIS exports, .sat stands for "Save As Text" , and .sab which stands for "Save As Binary".
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#2 Posted : Thursday, June 23, 2011 3:29:35 PM(UTC)
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What's the best way to get my Parasolid files into ACIS so I can import the SAT files into Shark? And I'm not being funny. All the parasolids are from NX.

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#3 Posted : Thursday, June 23, 2011 5:15:20 PM(UTC)
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Doesn't NX (ParaSolids) export .SAT files directly ?

I know SolidWorks (ParaSolids) does
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#4 Posted : Thursday, June 23, 2011 5:18:20 PM(UTC)
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ACIS ... Alan, Charles and Ian have been busy boys (sure there wasn't a Simon or a Sally too ?)
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#5 Posted : Thursday, June 23, 2011 5:34:12 PM(UTC)
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Mike, there's a beta available at the self-explanatory cadexchanger.com that might be of help....
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#6 Posted : Thursday, June 23, 2011 6:01:30 PM(UTC)
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Jol,

No, NX does not export SAT. Besides, it's the rather large library of parasolid files that I'd like to translate.

Zummer,

Thanks for that link!

Tim,

Nice bit of Trivia! :-)

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Tim Olson  
#7 Posted : Friday, June 24, 2011 10:09:00 AM(UTC)
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What's the best way to get my Parasolid files into ACIS so I can import the SAT files into Shark? And I'm not being funny. All the parasolids are from NX.

Mike...


You will need a translator to convert data between these two kernels. From NX you might want to try STEP.


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ZeroLengthCurve  
#8 Posted : Friday, June 24, 2011 10:49:14 AM(UTC)
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LOL! They sound like Linux-app-naming people... No, wait, theirs (ACIS') are closer to "normal"... OTOH, some Linux-based apps' names are astoundingly mind-boggling. It's no wonder they're difficult to market.

Got me to thinking CENTURION:

Charles, Ephraim, Nancy, Tiberius, Ulysses, Ramses, Igor, Oscar and Nestor.... (It's Friday...) and that spawned because I saw "ROMULUS" and thought of an old ST episode... hehehe
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