martin kopplow
Member
persistent scaling issue after importing a SAT file
Hello to everybody on the forum,
there does not appear to be a "discuss problems with alibre" category on this forum, so I'll post this message here. I just want to find out, if there is anybody else who ever had the kind of problem I will descibe below (And - of course - if there has been a solution found ).
Today I ran into a strange problem, and after some investigation and trying, I believe I am on to some sort of bug here. The issue appears to follow a system.
Here is what happened:
I always work in millimeters. I imported a SAT file. This file has been written in inches in Ashlar-Vellum Cobalt v7.2, which is based on an ACIS kernel as well. I know this application does not write units to the file header. For this reason, I checked "override units" in the import options dialog, and selected "inches" from the pulldown menu. Because I have some more of these files to import, I checked "set as default", so I could import several files using the same settings.
Import worked without any issues, then. Once I had the parts in Alibre, I changed units to millimeters and saved the file. I checked on the accurate size of the geometry by comparing reference dimensions. It was OK. I have done this several times before, and it always worked OK. The only difference in the process was checking "set as default" this time in the import options, which I never did before.
The next step was creating shop drawings of the parts. Here is where the scaling issue comes up: Now ALL files I create drawings of, come in at a wrong scale, even geometry I just created in Alibre.
Objects that are meant to be 1000mm (and which ARE 1000mm in the part file!) come in at 25400mm in a drawing, though all unit preferences (system and file) are set to millimeter now, and the geometry has been created with the same settings.
I tried shutting down and restarting the machine.
I tried importing another SAT file and when presented with the import options dialog, I specified different override units and set them as default, but this did not revert the effect. The error that has happened, appears not to be replicable, or at least not reversible.
What can I do about it? Right now, I can not create any drawings no more, or if, I can not dimension them properly.
Is there some kind of prefs file that carries the unit information and that might have been corrupted? Can I reset this file?
If I do a reinstall, I suspect I also have to reinstall and register all the add-ons, and I also think that I will probably have to reinstall every time I do an import of a file that is in inches, then.
Does any of you have a solution?
Best regards,
Martin Kopplow
Hello to everybody on the forum,
there does not appear to be a "discuss problems with alibre" category on this forum, so I'll post this message here. I just want to find out, if there is anybody else who ever had the kind of problem I will descibe below (And - of course - if there has been a solution found ).
Today I ran into a strange problem, and after some investigation and trying, I believe I am on to some sort of bug here. The issue appears to follow a system.
Here is what happened:
I always work in millimeters. I imported a SAT file. This file has been written in inches in Ashlar-Vellum Cobalt v7.2, which is based on an ACIS kernel as well. I know this application does not write units to the file header. For this reason, I checked "override units" in the import options dialog, and selected "inches" from the pulldown menu. Because I have some more of these files to import, I checked "set as default", so I could import several files using the same settings.
Import worked without any issues, then. Once I had the parts in Alibre, I changed units to millimeters and saved the file. I checked on the accurate size of the geometry by comparing reference dimensions. It was OK. I have done this several times before, and it always worked OK. The only difference in the process was checking "set as default" this time in the import options, which I never did before.
The next step was creating shop drawings of the parts. Here is where the scaling issue comes up: Now ALL files I create drawings of, come in at a wrong scale, even geometry I just created in Alibre.
Objects that are meant to be 1000mm (and which ARE 1000mm in the part file!) come in at 25400mm in a drawing, though all unit preferences (system and file) are set to millimeter now, and the geometry has been created with the same settings.
I tried shutting down and restarting the machine.
I tried importing another SAT file and when presented with the import options dialog, I specified different override units and set them as default, but this did not revert the effect. The error that has happened, appears not to be replicable, or at least not reversible.
What can I do about it? Right now, I can not create any drawings no more, or if, I can not dimension them properly.
Is there some kind of prefs file that carries the unit information and that might have been corrupted? Can I reset this file?
If I do a reinstall, I suspect I also have to reinstall and register all the add-ons, and I also think that I will probably have to reinstall every time I do an import of a file that is in inches, then.
Does any of you have a solution?
Best regards,
Martin Kopplow