Originally Posted by
JD Mather
AutoCAD does not support stepin, you need AutoCAD Mechanical or Mechanical Desktop (Inventor).
In MDT you could open the *.3ds file and use the igesout and igesin command. Then amstitch to stitch to a solid. *3ds files are generally of little use for serious work other than pretty pictures. The resulting solid would be heavily faceted faces rather than smooth NURBS geometry.
Are you familiar with the new Loft, Sweep, and Slice with surface tools in AutoCAD? I have a hard time believing the shape cannot be created directly in AutoCAD. Can you post the file?
I made a quick stab at your earlier post on the building and it is definately doable, but you would have to have a strong understanding of the new surface and solids tools in AutoCAD and it would be a bit of work. I'm guessing about 40hrs.