Export CATIA V5 to SolidWorks
Export CATIA V5 to SolidWorks
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Hi all,
I have a few questions that if somebody helps me out I will really appreciate it, I have this surfaces that were sent to me in Catia and I have to work on them on SolidWorks. Does anybody know how to do this??
I opened them in Catia and saved them as .STP and then I reopened in Solidworks but I cannot work on them cause in the Feature Manager Design tree I have just a part as imported instead of having every feature (like extrusions etc).
So I guess I will need to somehow use that imported part to cut a block and then I will have a negative of the part or something, and then maybe from that negative do another negative?
I really don't know how to approach this and any help will be really appreciate it.
Thanks!
I have a few questions that if somebody helps me out I will really appreciate it, I have this surfaces that were sent to me in Catia and I have to work on them on SolidWorks. Does anybody know how to do this??
I opened them in Catia and saved them as .STP and then I reopened in Solidworks but I cannot work on them cause in the Feature Manager Design tree I have just a part as imported instead of having every feature (like extrusions etc).
So I guess I will need to somehow use that imported part to cut a block and then I will have a negative of the part or something, and then maybe from that negative do another negative?
I really don't know how to approach this and any help will be really appreciate it.
Thanks!






RE: Export CATIA V5 to SolidWorks
You may not get a clean import. There are 3rd party programs available for a cost.
Chris
SolidWorks 07 3.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 04-21-07)
RE: Export CATIA V5 to SolidWorks
Thanks for your help. I was able to imported and as u said, it has some errors that couldn't be fixed with Import diagnostics.
So now if I want to ad features to the part (like extrusions or cut), should I do it on the Imported Part? So in the Feature Manager design tree I will have something like:
Imported1
Extrusion1
Sketch
Cut1
Sketch
Extrusion2
Sketch
Is this how I am suppose to do it?
Thanks
RE: Export CATIA V5 to SolidWorks
Chris
SolidWorks 07 4.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 04-21-07)