Pro-E to Solidworks
Pro-E to Solidworks
(OP)
I work for a small company which is part of a much larger corporation.
We have recently been told what we will be switching over to Solidworks from our current Pro-E.
This seems crazy to me as we literally have thousands of components going back years that are all in Pro-E.
What is the best approach to this. I know that we can convert all our models/drawings to Solidworks via STEP (see thread554-149293: Exporting to Solidworks ), but this involves a considerable amount of work.
The only viable approach is to run the 2 packages concurrently in parallel with new projects in Solidworks.
I would appreciate any comments on this?
Has anyone experience of something similar?
As they say -
"Their's not to reason why,
Their's but to do and die"
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We have recently been told what we will be switching over to Solidworks from our current Pro-E.
This seems crazy to me as we literally have thousands of components going back years that are all in Pro-E.
What is the best approach to this. I know that we can convert all our models/drawings to Solidworks via STEP (see thread554-149293: Exporting to Solidworks ), but this involves a considerable amount of work.
The only viable approach is to run the 2 packages concurrently in parallel with new projects in Solidworks.
I would appreciate any comments on this?
Has anyone experience of something similar?
As they say -
"Their's not to reason why,
Their's but to do and die"
![[banghead] banghead](https://www.tipmaster.com/images/banghead.gif)
![[banghead] banghead](https://www.tipmaster.com/images/banghead.gif)





RE: Pro-E to Solidworks
You don't say what rev. your on but has been around forever.
Should be in your bin directory, it takes some practice
RE: Pro-E to Solidworks
http://www.profilesmagazine.com/p25/tools.html
RE: Pro-E to Solidworks
If the old parts don't need to work with the new parts then you can keep two systems. We currently have legacy AutoMAD files, one product line in Pro/E and another product line that was brought in from a different location in SW. There is no benefit to us to convert the files as they don't have to play nice together.
RE: Pro-E to Solidworks
Featureworks here for converting dumb solids into feature
driven parts...pretty sweet really...taker time, but probibly
quicker than doing parts over if needed. Works well with
sheetmetal stuff also...
RE: Pro-E to Solidworks
directly again...might wanna check on that tho...
RE: Pro-E to Solidworks
RE: Pro-E to Solidworks
When opening model you can run Feature Works and automatically or manually convert a dumb solid into features. This process generally works in reverse order. By that I mean you recognize fillets chamfers and cut features which get removed from the model and stored until you work your way back to the original feature. Then SolidWorks will re-map the feature order putting the fillets or rounds last.
I also recently went to SolidWorks World and talked with a few Feature translation companies that offer products for converting and repairing models bi-directionally between Pro/E and SolidWorks.
I plan on using several of my models to test this process because it is a subject that I have much interest in.
Michael