inserting solidworks sketch blocks

[Anonymous]

Hello every one I am new to the autodesk community. I am wondering if there is a way to insert a solidworks sketch block into fusion 360 I have been trying to do this with no luck. I would greatly appreciate if someone could shed a little light on this for me.

Thanks.

[kb9ydn]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Hello every one I am new to the autodesk community. I am wondering if there is a way to insert a solidworks sketch block into fusion 360 I have been trying to do this with no luck. I would greatly appreciate if someone could shed a little light on this for me.

Thanks.

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I'm pretty sure Fusion won't import Solidworks sketches.  So from Solidworks you'll have to export the sketches as dxf and then bring them into Fusion.

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[Anonymous]

Thanks for the response, I did this and it works. The issue I'm having now is that the solid works sketch was created using the spline command, when I create the dxf it turns all my splines into straight lines. Is there any way to fix this?

[kb9ydn]

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@Anonymous wrote:
Thanks for the response, I did this and it works. The issue I'm having now is that the solid works sketch was created using the spline command, when I create the dxf it turns all my splines into straight lines. Is there any way to fix this?

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When you export from solidworks there should be an option for saving to poly lines or not.

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[Anonymous]

I went into the options like you showed and the export splines as splines box is checked but it still turns everything into straight lines.

[kb9ydn]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I went into the options like you showed and the export splines as splines box is checked but it still turns everything into straight lines.

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So it does.    Looks like you have to do more a little more monkeying around on the SWX side.

https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/57975

You would think this shouldn't be necessary on such a mature software package.  

EDIT:  Actually since you have to extrude the sketch to a solid, you might as well just import that solid directly into Fusion and project the edges you need.  Then you can delete the imported body.  That would eliminate the goofiness around exporting as a dxf.

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