Hi All,
I need to convert Sat file for further modeling and rendering.
I looked a round the web to find a <<Free>> way to convert it to (blender) importable format, but didn’t find any way. 
Can some one help, did it before?
Cheers
Eyal
Hi E-Tek,
I can do this for you. If your file is less than 8Mb you can email it to me: [email protected] , or if larger, send it to my ftp address: ftp://concept-4d.com login: clientxfer, password: transfer (Just drag and drop if using Internet Explorer, or use an ftp client)
If you need to use SAT format in the future, IntelliCAD Premium Edition will read/write SAT (ACIS) files as well as DXF and DWG. Its less expensive than some of the CAD translation programs like Deep Exploration or PolyTrans.
Chris
Thanks for the offer
I will see if they can’t give me the file in another format, else if they can’t I will contact you and send you the files (I know one of them is around 16 MB, the other is around 1.5 MB)
TNX again
Eyal
P.S.
I can get Step file instead is this file better (smaller file, less vertexes, less complicated file structure?)
Hi Eyal,
I am currently uploading some files to my ftp site that I have just tested in Blender 2.43 rc2.The CAMERA model opens very small in Blender, so you will have to scale it up quite a bit.
These files are in STL format. The pieces have been combined into one object. There are two different file sizes for each model.
I can save them in a smaller file size if you need it.
If you need the separate pieces for each model, I can try to resave them in a different format, like VRML. I could not save as OBJ from any of the programs that I have that read SAT format.
Chris
Eyal,
I have now uploaded OBJ and VRML files of each model that open in Blender. These files do have separate pieces.
The resolution (number of polygons) is lower than the STL files since this is limited by SolidWorks export options.
Chris
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Hi Chris
Much appreciated your efforts…
Just seen and download the OBJ & VRML (new) files ,after downloaded and [barley was able to] test the STLs this morning), I guess my home machine will manage better the STL.
I also looked at the OBJ files and they look more easy to handle (by the computer but also by me 
), hope I don’t need to do too much mesh editing on those object, they look quiet complicated vertex wise.
Thanks again 
Eyal
Hi Chris
Much appreciated your efforts…
Just seen and download the OBJ & VRML (new) files ,after downloaded and [barley was able to] test the STLs this morning), I guess my home machine will manage better the STL.
I also looked at the OBJ and Vrml files and they look more easy to handle (by the computer but also by me ), hope I don’t need to do too much mesh editing on those object, they look quiet complicated vertex wise.
Thanks again
Eyal
Eyal,
I used SolidWorks to convert the SAT file to VRML v2 (97). Then I used AccuTrans 3D http://www.micromouse.ca/ to convert to VRML v1 and OBJ. (AccuTrans is a low cost, high quality conversion application.)
I also used IntelliCAD Premium Edition http://www.intellicadms.com to convert the SAT to a DXF, but the DXF would not import into Blender. There is a new version of AccuTrans that has improved DXF file translation. I will try this later today and let you know if it works in Blender.
Regards,
Chris
Hi Eyal,
I did try your SAT files again with IntelliCAD and the new AccuTrans, and had some problems. In IntelliCAD the solid objects must be converted to surfaces (exploded), since the SAT file contains only solid objects. Unfortunately some of these solid objects have problems in IntelliCAD that prevents them from being converted to surfaces.
Saving directly from IntelliCAD as a DXF is possible, but the quality is very poor. Creating surfaces or meshes from the solid objects before saving is a better method since you have control over the quality.
I have done this with other SAT files in IntelliCAD before. Perhaps IntelliCAD is just very fussy about these SAT files, since SolidWorks had only very slight problem, but was able to fix it.
Chris