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Urgent! Export Assembly files from Solidworks To Inventor

Alexrose1942 — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 12:48:50 GMT

Looking for an effiecient way to export assemblies from SolidWorks to inventor , I just need them as solid bodies and not as surfaces, few companies I've worked with sending me assemblies files that were converted to .sldprt and when i open them they appear as surfaces and giving me a headache in multiples tasks and drawing visiblity problems. is there any Plug-In for SW to do this in an efficient way ? STEP act the same . please answer only if you really tested it as i dont want to mislead the guys there.. Thanks

Re: Urgent! Export Assembly files from Solidworks To Inventor

mdavis22569 — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 13:01:33 GMT

First ..what version of Inventor ...

ALso you should be able to open it right from Solidworks to Inventor...

If you're in 2016, you can use the AnyCad part of Inventor...

Re: Urgent! Export Assembly files from Solidworks To Inventor

Alexrose1942 — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 13:17:43 GMT

Inventor Version 2015 , they will not send the assembly as sldass files..

Re: Urgent! Export Assembly files from Solidworks To Inventor

mdavis22569 — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 13:23:14 GMT

how will they send it ...

Re: Urgent! Export Assembly files from Solidworks To Inventor

Mark.Lancaster — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 13:31:24 GMT

@Alexrose1942

Since you are using Inventor 2015.. First open the solidworks part by single select it from the list. At the bottom of the open dialog, select the toptions button. In the options, make sure self heal and the options next to it are selected. I don't have Inventor 2015 currently running so I'm unable to post a screen shot of what I'm talking about.

Re: Urgent! Export Assembly files from Solidworks To Inventor

Alexrose1942 — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 13:36:52 GMT

@mdavis22569 they make sldprt from their assemblies and they send .

Re: Urgent! Export Assembly files from Solidworks To Inventor

mdavis22569 — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 13:45:45 GMT

so when you open it you're getting surfaces instead of solids?

Re: Urgent! Export Assembly files from Solidworks To Inventor

Alexrose1942 — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 13:47:33 GMT

Exactly

Re: Urgent! Export Assembly files from Solidworks To Inventor

mdavis22569 — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 13:56:13 GMT

did you see @Mark.Lancaster post ? I don't have 2015 either to show you ...

also take a moment for this

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Inventor-Help/files/GUID-7CF00AFC-D40C-4FFC-B781-338AE2476527-htm.html

can you provide a part so we can maybe screencast and show it ...

Re: Urgent! Export Assembly files from Solidworks To Inventor

Alexrose1942 — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 14:52:43 GMT

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g7xwbxunc0d5wcc/Assembly_NR-030_3.SLDPRT?dl=0 see link for example file they sent me

Re: Urgent! Export Assembly files from Solidworks To Inventor

mdavis22569 — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 15:09:42 GMT

I'm only getting surface imports ...

Re: Urgent! Export Assembly files from Solidworks To Inventor

Mark.Lancaster — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 15:50:33 GMT

mdavis22569 bet me to the reply but yes its only surfaces. Either you will need to repair this yourself or ask for another file from your supplier. See if they will provide a STEP file instead.

Re: Urgent! Export Assembly files from Solidworks To Inventor

WHolzwarth — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 19:42:55 GMT

I regret to say, that derived single SLDPRTs made from SLDASMs are very often just garbage. This file is one of them. You can see that, if you're opening this SLDPRT with eDrawings.

Nevertheless I've tried to heal it. Here's the result. zipped as 2015 IPT and STEP.

Walter