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    Posted: 17.Feb.2023 at 13:27
Hi,

I'm looking for some help
I use Visual Studio to draw circles and circle arrangements, afterwards i export the design into a CAD file, I currently use DWG and DXF. I need to generate a 3d file and export to a .SAT file format.
Ideally I would like to use a 3rd party library/component to use within visual studios to save directly to a .SAT file format. other options would be to convert my DXF or DWG file to SAT
any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Points: 2018 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17.Feb.2023 at 15:01
I am not aware of a .SAT library. BTW, what library do you use to write DWG files?
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Points: 1426 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17.Feb.2023 at 16:35
Hello ISeeCircles ( and Vladimir ).
You have AutoCAD 2022 so you can make there your *.sat files.
On the top left of your screen you have an A, clic there and you see :
New , Open , Save , Save as , Import , Export , clic on Export and scroll down to have : Other files.
There it opens a panel and you choose : ACIS ( *.sat ) and choose the objects + verify the place were the *.sat will be placed.
As a verify you can eventually Import your *.sat into a new AutoCAD to see the *.sat result.

I personnaly give *.STEP because it's quicker to type _stepout but maybe it's better to give *.sat as it maybe keeps the eventual blocks that you have inside your DWG ( to be confirmed , thanks eventually Vladimir ).


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Points: 4 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17.Feb.2023 at 16:41
Thank you for your reply,

I use a library in Visual Studio called CADLib, that allows be to generate CAD files from by code/interfaces. I'm try to generate the .sat files without the use of AutoCAD. The .Sat file contains the geometry of my circle structure that gets regenerated into Ansys software. I'm trying to streamline the process to remove the manual AutoCAD step
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Points: 4 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17.Feb.2023 at 16:43
Thank you, I use a library called CADLib, its a 3rd party library what I can utilise in Visual Studio
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Points: 2018 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17.Feb.2023 at 17:54
So it is not a "real" DWG, just a similar format with the same extension. SAT is probably a similar problem. It has to understand the ACIS kernel to be reliable. There is an ancient attempt on GitHub: https://gist.github.com/yorikvanhavre/8f365cea53ec4d95ad22d48bc5a741cd but I doubt it is usable.
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