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Exporting for Solidworks

Exporting for Solidworks

Exporting for Solidworks

(OP)
What is the best file format for exporting from Inventor into Solidworks? It will be .idw's with rendered isometric views that i'm exporting.

RE: Exporting for Solidworks

unfortunatly Solid cant import the visual settings in any way! if you want to import this setting,it dosnt work, but inventor can handel this, if you open a solid works part in Inv!
But about part formats i should say that each of this format has its own application, for exam: IGS format can export parts as surface, or STL used for Streio litography type file, Step & X*t,X*b used for export solid vulome this type generally used to FEA transforming.

RE: Exporting for Solidworks

Why would you export the idw file?? Whats the point?
Typically people export 3d models and not 2d line drawings from one cad program to another.

But I believe if you must then solidworks "should" be able to read dwg or dxf files which inventor can easily save out.
The rendered isometrics are another story though. they will probably need to be exported as images.

But again I wonder why you are doing this? A little insight into the reason to export a 2d drawing from 1 cad package to another and we might have better solutions.
 

RE: Exporting for Solidworks

(OP)
An agreement with our partner that we will provide them with soft, editable drawings. Unfortunately, the higher ups don't bother asking about any of this, they of course know better. So we did our work in Inventor and the partner operates in Solidworks.

And here we sit...

RE: Exporting for Solidworks

Solidworks can read dwg files...
 

RE: Exporting for Solidworks

(OP)
I thought it could, but I sent a .dwg to someone I know that uses Solidworks and they said that it came up blank. More importantly, can it be edited through Solidworks as a .dwg?
 

RE: Exporting for Solidworks

Try dxf or
Its also possible that you are not saving to dwg correctly.
Did you try opening it in autocad first?

RE: Exporting for Solidworks

BOPman
Yes. SolidWorks can open and edit an AutoCAD drawing.
Have them try using DWGeditor.

Bradley
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