Hello, Someone knows how a way to convert the CATIA tree (of a project) to LAYERS on Rhino? Thanks,

I found a way but I have to convert first in our CAM software. CATIA–>CAM software–>stp–>Rhino–>Run explode block to layer it would be beatifull if Rhinoceros do the conversion in automatic. I think isn’t easy but it could be a wonderfull goal. Thanks to all.

What information are do you have? a .txt?

I have a project in CATIA. If i export that assembly in STP i lost the structure of parts.

Open your design in CATIA. Go to the “Structure” tab in the top menu bar and select “Product”. This will open the Product Tree window, which shows the hierarchical structure of your design. In the Product Tree window, right-click on the root node of the tree (which represents your entire design) an…

Sometimes the STEP files will come in as nested blocks that mirror the Assembly and part tree in Catia. The Block Editor will show this. If this is the case there are also utilities to work those parts out to layers.

Here’s the utility that Scott mentioned. [image] How to import to layers instead of blocks? Rhino for Mac Hi Menos - see if the attached plug-in helps - Drag and Drop to add ExplodeBlocksToLayers Start the command with no selection and choose the non-default option for…

You don’t understand my problem. I have a CATIA PROJECT, every object is inside the CATIA TREE. I need a way to have the same structure in RHINO files. I can see the structure in block manager but i don’t know how to transfer it on layers. I try export the blocks and reloded but the positions of …

Hi @michele4 , did you actually tried to run the utility proposed by @Japhy ? I use it as well and it does a nice job. You will not get a Structure tree in rhino because Rhino does not have it but you will get a layer, sublayer structure the same way as part, subparts. If you get no layer structu…

I will retry in next minutes, thanks. Here a simple file if you want try Example_x_export_from_CATIA.stp (1.5 MB)

Hi @michele4 look working fine for me, is this the structure You have on CATIA side? You can find a short video about the import process here . [image]

Hi @scottd , what about including this useful utility from @pascal to standard Rhino? This option as been added already to Solidworks file import. As pointed already on an old post( Export to STEP AP 242 ), I think STP import/export should be improved in Rhino Thanks!

CATIA TREE to RHINO LAYERS

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Japhy (Japhy) December 6, 2022, 3:20pm 6

Here’s the utility that Scott mentioned.

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