Surfcam file into Solidworks

[diamondcat]

My customer gave me a .rar file which was drawn in Surfcam. Does anyone know of a way to get this into Solidworks or to convert into a .stl file? I also have Pro-E and Catia that I can use to convert as well.

Thanks

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

A .rar file is a compressed file (like zip) you will need to decompress it first.

Try WinRAR from

http://www.download.com/3000-2250-10007677.html

 

[diamondcat]

Thanks! I'd never heard of that before.

 

[fcsuper]

Once you get it extracted from the .rar format (who uses that these days?), you may have a Surfcam native format file. I think it's something like .dsn if I remember right. To import that into Solidworks and visa versa, you'll need a $1500 add-in from Surfcam. It used to be free with a Surfcam license, but I guess Surfcam thought they could gauge their customers for a bit more money.

Matt
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
sw.fcsuper.com
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group

 

[diamondcat]

Thanks for the additional info. When I opened the RAR, there were igs files in there so I think the problem is solved.
Thanks