Treating Solidworks entity as a Solid

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I Imported a solidworks file properly into AutoCAD 2018, but as I'm interacting with it, the software cant seem to treat it as a traditional solid, although it appears to be one.  Does anyone know how I might be able to convert this to a traditional solid?  For instance, if I enter the command SOLIDEDIT, it prompts me to select a 3D solid.  When I select the imported entity, it denies the selection and issues the "select 3D solid" prompt again.

[Anonymous]

I"ve tried commands "UNION", "CONVTOSOLID" and "CONVTOSURFACE". None of the commands seems to serve any good. Help??  I've attached the file for anyone who can help.

[john.vellek · Accepted solution]

HI @Anonymous,

I answered this in your other thread.

I battled your Solidworks file for a bit. I found the quickest way of doing this conversion was to export the model to an IGES file, Open in Inventor and then saveas as a DWG.

Normally, I would use Smooth and then Surfsculpt or Union (which converts to a solid).  I was fighting this a bit and decided to take the quick route.

[Anonymous]

My experience with SolidWork parts being imported is they come in as a block. So examine the property of the object and if indeed it is a block then explode it. I haven't imported SW assemblies so if that is what you imported it may be the components are then nested blocks which will then require further exploding.