ok so i'm trying to find a way to cnvert a .dcm (dicom, cat scan file) into something i can put into autocad/solidworks.

or is this something that can be imported without conversion

right now, it saves it as like 160 .dcm files, and we use a viewer to look at it in 3d, but i cannot save it from the viewer as a 3d model.

will these CAD programs be able to do this? i wanna be able to mess with the thing on autocad/solidworks

8/6/2008 8:58:43 AM

i just checked in the list of file types autocad 2009 on my machine can import, and .dcm is not one of them. it's not under the open options either. i don't have solidworks. i don't know how you'll get this done w/o some kind of conversion.

8/6/2008 9:48:07 AM

You can import .dxb .dgn .sat .3ds and .wmf into autocad. I'm using land desktop 2008.

8/6/2008 9:51:47 AM

It's a no go in Inventor.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=convert+dicom+to+cad

8/6/2008 10:12:46 AM

no go in solidworks 2007

8/6/2008 10:23:24 AM

thanks for the help folks. ill be looking to convert it to something that CAD can accept.

8/6/2008 10:50:19 AM

where did you get the files from?

You need to talk to the creators. Its very possible the dcm format is a one way viewing format to protect their data from being stolen/manipulated.

8/6/2008 1:19:44 PM

we have a neck up CAT scan machine. the files are .dcm when they are scanned.

we have a viewer that we use, and i can save snapshots as jpeg or whatever type. but i cant save it as a 3d to view it on say autocad, or solid works.

but i did find something that may have helped. its called slicer. (slicer.org).

it has a way of converting the .dcm eventually into a .stl (stereolithography file) which may work

8/6/2008 6:03:36 PM