Body Filtering Property

There are four body filtering properties: Process Solid Bodies, Process Surface Bodies, Process Line Bodies and Mixed Import Resolution. Their value is set in the Project Schematic and they determine what bodies will get imported to the Mechanical application. The default setting is:

Material Properties

The CAD system interfaces will process only the isotropic material type.

Multiple Versions of CAD Systems

For most CAD applications, you cannot import a geometry that was created in a newer version of the application if you are currently configured for an older version. When you have both a newer and an older version installed, Mechanical utilizes the version currently configured to import geometry.

For example, assume that you have both Creo Parametric 4.0 and Creo Parametric 6.0 installed and that your computer is configured for the 4.0 version. If you attempt to import geometry created in Creo Parametric 6.0 from the Project Schematic, the configured 4.0 version will not be able to load the geometry and the import will fail. For some CADs (e.g. AutoCAD) the last version run is the one that will be used to execute an import and is essentially the configured version.