How best to convert Solid Edge files to Solidworks?
How best to convert Solid Edge files to Solidworks?
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I have been faced with this type of problem on more than one occasion and there seem to always be a variety of ways to tackle it. Ideally what I would like is a way to convert parts within assemblies with all the history of how that part has been created; i.e. with all the extruded bosses and cuts etc that made that part so that it can be fully editable within solidworks. For example it turns out that this is entirely possible between solid Edge and inventor using and older file type. So far I have used the conversion software built into solidworks premium which isn't ideal and tried using the stl iges, step and parasolid files, however all these only give me blocks. There is also the function of move face within solid works is there any alternative to this?






RE: How best to convert Solid Edge files to Solidworks?
Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
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RE: How best to convert Solid Edge files to Solidworks?
Still the best neutral format for the two software is parasolid since they are both built on it.
Patrick
RE: How best to convert Solid Edge files to Solidworks?
Are the parts from your source wrong on all features?
I run feature recognition on only features I need to edit. (I don't use the automatic feature recognition.)
RE: How best to convert Solid Edge files to Solidworks?
RE: How best to convert Solid Edge files to Solidworks?
Patrick
RE: How best to convert Solid Edge files to Solidworks?
WHY do you need to convert files from SE to SW? What process is driving that?
Like Patrick said, Can you use SE for your work?
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RE: How best to convert Solid Edge files to Solidworks?
Have you actually seen proof of this, or just been told that was possible. I highly doubt, it but would love to be proven wrong.
Feature recognition (FeatureWorks) and Direct Edit remain the only viable options, unless you opt for a bespoke third party service.