Creating surface/solid from 3ds modelfile ?

I want to convert a 3ds format model to iges or sat format.

So I converted the 3ds file to dwg (I also converted it to stl) format and opened it in solidworks. But when I try to convert it to iges/sat format, it says "no solid found". May I know what should I do? Thanks.

2 Answers

Im not a proffessor on File Conversion, but it seems to me the .3ds file only has planes? Probably, IGES does not like that one bit. You may try RHinoceros though, it is generally more forgiving when it comes to file conversion than SolidWorks.