Inserting .dwg or .dxf into a Drawing
Inserting .dwg or .dxf into a Drawing
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I'm working with exported files (.dxf or .dwg) from Orcad and the files are huge when inserted into a SW drawing. Is the anyway to compress the file size? I tried making a block out of the file, but still doesn't help. I have the bottom view of an electrical board inserted into a drawing and it's 22.5 MB. Can't imangine what the file will be when I insert the top view.
Is there an export option in Orcad or SW that needs to be set?
Thanks for you help
Is there an export option in Orcad or SW that needs to be set?
Thanks for you help
Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2008 SP 3.1
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
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RE: Inserting .dwg or .dxf into a Drawing
Have you tried cleaning up the dwg or dxf in ACAD or DWGeditor?
RE: Inserting .dwg or .dxf into a Drawing
Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2008 SP 3.1
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
I'm just a little verklempt. Talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic. Pink Floyd, was neither Pink nor Floyd. Discuss!--"Coffee Talk" Mike Myers SNL
RE: Inserting .dwg or .dxf into a Drawing
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RE: Inserting .dwg or .dxf into a Drawing
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RE: Inserting .dwg or .dxf into a Drawing
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Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 06/08
ctopher's home (updated Jul 13, 2008)
RE: Inserting .dwg or .dxf into a Drawing
LOL!
Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2008 SP 3.1
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
I'm just a little verklempt. Talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic. Pink Floyd, was neither Pink nor Floyd. Discuss!--"Coffee Talk" Mike Myers SNL
RE: Inserting .dwg or .dxf into a Drawing
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people who value security over freedom will soon find they have neither.
RE: Inserting .dwg or .dxf into a Drawing
Would the 2D-3D conversion tools in SWX help? Isn't there one for "cleaning up" things like overlapping entities? I don't use it because I've found it easier to just remodel from scratch anything that we have in ACAD, but in your case this could be a big help if it works.
- - -Updraft
RE: Inserting .dwg or .dxf into a Drawing
Yes. My suggestion is to draw the PCB per the board drawing dim's. Someone has the dim's.
For all of the components, use simple outlines and delete the extra lines shown in your attachment.
Or, if you are using CircuitWorks, it will do most of the work for you.
Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 06/08
ctopher's home (updated Jul 13, 2008)
RE: Inserting .dwg or .dxf into a Drawing
What we normally do here is create a board and it's components in an assembly (very generic) insert the assembly into a drawing to have associativity. Then the PCB designers export the top and bottom views to .dxf or .dwg so we can overlay it onto the SW drawing views. We do this to get the silk-screening of the designators and the smaller detail components not modeled in SW. Plus it's kind of a double check to see if they moved components on us. You know how sneaky they can be. LOL!
Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2008 SP 3.1
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
I'm just a little verklempt. Talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic. Pink Floyd, was neither Pink nor Floyd. Discuss!--"Coffee Talk" Mike Myers SNL