Can MoI .3DM files go directly to SolidWorks and into CAM for tooling smoothed parts?

 From:  Michael Gibson
1789.9 In reply to 1789.8 
Hi Petr, yes that is correct - STEP and SAT with both import and export for each.

> But you claimed it was really difficult to write a routines for
> reading in the file.... and now, I hear it is coming true :)

Definitely importing is a much more difficult task.

But it helps speed things up a lot if you license a library that someone else wrote, which is what I did for this case. :) These will be using the HarmonyWare file translator libraries.

I don't really know a whole lot of details about SAT though, like if it tends to be particularly fussy or not, etc...

Is SAT import something that will be of particular use to you?

- Michael