11 answers

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  juriga about 1 year ago

  With personal experience, I recommend imporotvať files into Solidworks format *. Stp.

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     Jason Hayes about 1 year ago

     Thank you.

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  Jackson Rodrigo de Souza about 1 year ago

  Os melhores arquivos para importar para o SolidWorks na minha opinião são parasolid (.x_t .x_b) e step (.stp .step).
  Se voce pode negociar com seu fornecedor de arquivos peça que mande em
  parasolid.

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  Jackson Rodrigo de Souza about 1 year ago

  The best files for importing into SolidWorks in my opinion are Parasolid (. X_T. X_b) and step (. Stp. Step).
  If you can negotiate with your supplier to send the file number in
  Parasolid.

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     Jason Hayes about 1 year ago

     Thank you.

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  Brian Pereira about 1 year ago

  Agree with juriga and Jackson. Step or Parasolid. SW can also attempt to do a feature recognition on Step. Can't remember if it will do it for parasolid. Also if you are doing a lot of Pro/E you might find an aftermarket add-on that will import with all the features intact. Stay away from IGES as that is basically a mesh file.

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     Brian Pereira about 1 year ago

     Just one note. IGES is not a mesh file. My bad. And SW will do a feature recognition on it.

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     Jason Hayes about 1 year ago

     Thank you, I have only done the Feature Recognition on one file and it worked really well.

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  Tomas Barahona about 1 year ago

  Step and parasolid works fine if you're importing models from other softwares.
  Iges works perfect as inventor's "pack n' go" if you want to share an assembly between SW users, it recognizes all the features and create the parts involved automatically.

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     Jason Hayes about 1 year ago

     Thank you.

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  Jason Hayes about 1 year ago

  Thanks everyone for the help. Even though i have been using Solidworks for 6 years there are still things i have never done with the software. But as I always tell my co-workers, "CAD is a never ending learning experience."

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  Chris S about 1 year ago

  I like to just drag the file into the work area of SW, Its really quick. No need to go through the file/open/ type filter and browse for the file method.

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  juriga about 1 year ago

  Even I could recommend files marked SAT. When you open the file you have Solidworks required supplementary information in XLS format. This is extra work for the distributor. But try to be everything.

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  Brian Pereira about 1 year ago

  Just a correction on my comment above. IGES is not a mesh file. My bad. I was thinking STL for some reason. And SW will do a feature recognition on IGES. Sorry for the error.