HELP! with .sat file export in autocad 2006

[bobray]

Hi,

My knowledge of AutoCAD is next to nothing... and i need help with a project i am working on.

I am using a software that can convert 2D images into 3D models (exports in dxf format)...the software is called Photomodeler Pro... anyway then i need to send this model into another software for electromagnetic analysis...that software is called Ansoft HFSS...now the problem is that HFSS only accepts .sat (acis) format for 3D models... so i thought i would convert the dxf model into sat (acis) using AutoCAD... but when i try the export option it says "No solids, regions or ShapeManager bodies selected."...i think this is because that model is considered a mesh ...so can anyone PLEASE PLEASE help me find a way to convert this dxf model into .sat format??

Here is a link to my dxf file…
http://ez-files.net/download.php?file=cb9f89fa

I did a search on this forum and tried the LISP application to convert mesh to solid (http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1295), but that gives me the "That is not an *open* polygon mesh" alert message.

thanks, ur help will be truly appreciated... I need this solved by monday or ill miss my deadline

[Cadgirl10]

I'm not familiar with the software you're using, but....I did play with your drawing a bit and I figured out that some of it would go into 3-D in Cad but there were 364 objects that would not. I believe that maybe your problem is that the objects in your drawing are not a polyline. Possibly the software you're using needs the images to be a polyline just as the objects need to be a polyline to be 3-D in Auto-Cad. If you can go into your drawing and look up the help where it tells you how to turn several lines into one polyline and then maybe you might get results with that. I'm not sure like I said I've never used the software you mentioned but I think that may be part of the problem.

[CarlB]

I was able to convert the 3d object made of 3dfaces into a polyface mesh using
"fa2pf.LSP: Convert A Selection Set Of 3DFaces To A PFace Mesh".
from site http://www.accustudio.com/marketplace/fm_freeware.htm

However this too could not be convereted to a solid using m2s.lsp, as it is a "polyface" mesh, and it could not be exported to a sat file.

So OK this is no help but I tried...

[bobray]

I was able to convert the 3d object made of 3dfaces into a polyface mesh using
"fa2pf.LSP: Convert A Selection Set Of 3DFaces To A PFace Mesh".
from site http://www.accustudio.com/marketplace/fm_freeware.htm

However this too could not be convereted to a solid using m2s.lsp, as it is a "polyface" mesh, and it could not be exported to a sat file.

So OK this is no help but I tried...

Sorry for not mentioning this... but i had tried converting this into a mesh using the fa2pf.LSP, meshout.LSP and the 3DSout /3DSin methods, but to no avail.

Also, does anybody know how to use Autdesk Inventor? I emailed autodesk with my problem and they reccomended that Inventor has a relatively simple solution for this, but the lab I work at doesnt have inventor... so before buying it I want to know if its possible to do this in Inventor?