{"id":158187,"date":"2021-05-05T19:26:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T19:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/what-is-the-appropriate-way-to-import-a-2d-geometry-from-an-autocad-file\/"},"modified":"2021-05-19T12:18:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T12:18:02","slug":"what-is-the-appropriate-way-to-import-a-2d-geometry-from-an-autocad-file","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/what-is-the-appropriate-way-to-import-a-2d-geometry-from-an-autocad-file\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the appropriate way to import a 2D geometry from an AutoCad File?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Item-Body\">\n<div class=\"Message userContent\">\n<p>I will start with a little background on my project. I am trying to simulate a soluble phase concentration gradient (one phase only and one solute only) inside a microfluidic device. I have a 2D drawing of my microfluidic device that I have made using AutoCad. I would like to import this 2D drawing into DesignModeler and then convert to 3D (I believe the extrude function should be able to do this). Unfortunately, I have been able to import my autocad file. <\/p>\n<p>I have tried this with three different file formats (iges, dwg, dfx). I have downloaded the academic research module that was purchased by my university&#039;s engineering department so my understanding was that this should be able to support dwg and dfx imports. I have also worked through the autocad configuration in the configuration manager. When I select the file for import in the DesignModeler module, DesignModeler appears to recognize that it is an AutoCad file. See below<\/p>\n<div class=\"embedExternal embedImage\">\n<div class=\"embedExternal-content\">\n<a class=\"embedImage-link\" href=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/305\/KAVIQKDDO4J4.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"embedImage-img\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/305\/KAVIQKDDO4J4.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-158187","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-ansys-workbench","topic-tag-designmodeler","topic-tag-fluids"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_author_ip":[""],"_bbp_view_count":["13303"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0","0"],"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["4798"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["158187"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27792"],"_bbp_engagement":["200","192545"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["7"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["177598"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["177598"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2021-05-19 12:18:02"]},"test":"rappalancsu-edu"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/158187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/158187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}