File conversion from Inventor to Solidwork
File conversion from Inventor to Solidwork
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Does anyone know of a method or 3rd party software that will convert the data in an Inventor part file to SolidWorks and retain data such as material properties, custom properties, etc? Step file. iges, etc. conversion seems to eliminate this data.






RE: File conversion from Inventor to Solidwork
RE: File conversion from Inventor to Solidwork
RE: File conversion from Inventor to Solidwork
RE: File conversion from Inventor to Solidwork
Scott Baugh, CSWP
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RE: File conversion from Inventor to Solidwork
I forgot to mention that the more advanced packages of SW has "feature works" which I think builds the feature tree....turning the dumb model into a usable tree....at lest that is my understanding. Again, untested by me since I have the basic version. For the times I had to transfer, I ended up re-modeling. One command that is VERY handy is the "convert entity" sketch command. You can select the face of the dumb part, and "convert" traces the profile into the sketch, and you can extrude the same part. I think I ended up turning relations off and suppressing the original dumb part after the convert.
Paul
RE: File conversion from Inventor to Solidwork
What we do is bring in the dumb solid into a part and like pejaer says is we use Convert entities or anything to match the profile... However what we do is we delete the sketch relationships to the inserted part, an add Dimensions to fully constrain the sketch and Extrude to the length measured for that extrusion... and we repeat for each feature to reverse Engineer the part. Then with all relationships removed from the inserted part, it can then be deleted. This reduces Part size and keeps any references or file references from being broken in the future.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
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