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.

Thank you 

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 ).

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