Converting 2D to 3D in Solidworks 2016
Converting 2D to 3D in Solidworks 2016
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Thank you in advance.
Anyone know the best way to convert a 2D DWG file to 3D Solidworks. And in this case, we know the 2D converted has lines that aren't complete.
I personally do not think there is an easy way, but maybe someone will come up with one....
Anyone know the best way to convert a 2D DWG file to 3D Solidworks. And in this case, we know the 2D converted has lines that aren't complete.
I personally do not think there is an easy way, but maybe someone will come up with one....






RE: Converting 2D to 3D in Solidworks 2016
Scott Baugh, CSWP
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RE: Converting 2D to 3D in Solidworks 2016
The process caused me to discover rather quickly that the 2D drawings had been, uh, simplified, to put it politely, and some views that would have been useful to me were just not present. Luckily I had access to an actual similar engine to fill in the missing information and to figure out what some of the odd lines might have been intended to represent.
I think it's worth your time to run through the associated tutorial a few times, just to get a feel for what you can expect
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Converting 2D to 3D in Solidworks 2016
Patrick
RE: Converting 2D to 3D in Solidworks 2016
- You are executing the tutorial in the first place to learn something new; I never get new concepts in one reading.
- The SW designers/authors/engineers/programmers have a particular Gallic way of thinking and of doing things. There's nothing wrong with that, but it may not parallel the way you think.
- I get the impression that SW is written in French (logical enough), and translated to English, usually a little better than machine translation does it, but not always a lot better.
- At the time I was using SW2010, the tutorials were more closely associated with SW2007 or SW2005. I.e., they didn't update the tutorials with every new issue of SW, and that caused a lot of confusion, because they seemed to regularly change the menu structure, the artwork, the specific terminology used, and the behavior of the software, i.e. everything _but_ the tutorials, regularly/continuously. I'm getting rusty, but I see no sign here that that tradition has changed.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA