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Pro/E's compatibility with AutoCAD 2000.

Pro/E's compatibility with AutoCAD 2000.

Pro/E's compatibility with AutoCAD 2000.

(OP)
Hello All,

What is Pro/E's Wildfire 3.0 compatibility with AutoCAD 2000?  Specifically, you can import, but can you successfully edit and save back to dwg format like you can with SolidWorks' DWGEditor?

Thanks in advance for your reponse.

Kind regards

Mecoman

RE: Pro/E's compatibility with AutoCAD 2000.

Why would you want to do such a thing.  Yes, you can export drawings to DWG & DXF to be used in ACAD or other 2D drawing packages but you can't go back to Pro/E.  And that's the same with SolidWorks.  You can cut&paste from ACAD to a blank drawing view but that data is dumb with no parametric value whatsoever.  DWGEditor is a free package SolidWorks Corp has included with the software.....it just enables you to open DWG files it has nothing to do with SolidWorks 3D.

Best Regards,

Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SW2007 SP 2.0 & Pro/E 2001
Dell Precision 370
P4 3.6 GHz, 1GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
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RE: Pro/E's compatibility with AutoCAD 2000.

(OP)
Heckler,

Thanks for the repsonse.

To respond to your question. We have several thousand assemblies drawn in acad. An order for one assembly may hapeen again in 1 to 10 years, and a few minor drawing revisions may be needed (5-30minutes of work). It would be nice for a change done on a dwg file to be done in either acad or pro/ to then be able to be accessed in either acad or pro/E. Backwards forwards compatibility.

I anticipate a long transition time of moving from 2d to 3d. It would be nice to do it faster, but it is not possible.

Thanks again for your response.

Kind regards,

Mecoman

RE: Pro/E's compatibility with AutoCAD 2000.

That is one of the bigest problems when dealing with legacy data.  The only way to manage legacy data is with the software package it was created in.  We have legacy ACAD data that our drafters/designers deal with on a daily basis.  If we have to modifications to the data we redo it in SolidWorks or Pro/E depending on the customer.  But all new designs are done is 3D.  We have 30 years of hand and ACAD drawings to sift through.

Having DWG editor allows us MEs to open ACAD drawings since we do not have ACAD on our computers.  But other than that I stay away from ACAD files.  You may want to consider doing data translation but several thousand assemblies is a lot of data.

Best Regards,

Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SW2007 SP 2.0 & Pro/E 2001
Dell Precision 370
P4 3.6 GHz, 1GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
      o
  _`\(,_
(_)/ (_)

Never argue with an idiot. They'll bring you down to their level and beat you with experience every time.

RE: Pro/E's compatibility with AutoCAD 2000.

>  dealing with legacy data ... data translations

Sort of a side note, something I didn't realize until recently; one of the prime drivers of both IGES and STEP were / are long term, platform independent data storage and retrieval in a world of planned obsolescence.

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