Solidworks to Fusion360 Import

[Ex_Machina_Engineering]

Hello everyone.

After a quick search, I didn't find any topics on this particular issue. I have been sent a few Solidworks files from a customer which are organized in Assemblies and Sub-assemblies.

The problem is that I don't know which parts go into which assemblies to upload them as they are file named with the company's internal product codes.

When I try to upload an assembly in Fusion it asks me to point to the parts. How can I work around that?

Sorry if it's a noob question...

[TrippyLighting]

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@Ex_Machina_Engineering wrote:

Sorry if it's a noob question...

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That is not a noob question at all.

I have only done this myself once and ended up using another CAD software and there just pointed at the main assembly and that referenced al the subassemblies and that took care of everything.

If you know what the top assembly is, could you not just try to import that and see if it pulls in all the sub-assemblies ?

[Ex_Machina_Engineering]

It doesn't seem to do it automatically. In Inventor it does, but not in
Fusion. It wants me to point to the files. Now, I didn't try to upload
anyway and see what happens.

Also, I don't know which is the top assembly. It's all in alphanumeric
codes that probably make sense in their PDM system, but carry no context
as to which is the top one and which are the sub-assemblies.

[TheCADWhisperer]

I would try uploading all of the *.sldprt files into a folder.

Then I would try uploading each assembly into the folder.

Since you don't know which one is top level and which ones are sub-assemblies (these would have to be uploaded before the top level, it might take some trial and error).

or

Open assemblies in Autodesk Inventor and you will get list of assembly structure even if it can't find the components.

Now you have something to guide your Fusion effort.

[HughesTooling]

There's an example loading a solidworks assembly in the video at the bottom of this page.  Looks like selecting the assembly and all linked parts at the same time should bring all parts into one fusion assembly design. Not sure how it would work if there are sub assemblies as well.

Mark

[JDMather]

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@HughesTooling wrote:

... the assembly and all linked parts at the same time

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What parts, What assembly?

[HughesTooling]

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@JDMather wrote:

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@HughesTooling wrote:

... the assembly and all linked parts at the same time

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What parts, What assembly?

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I'm just going on what's in the video, see around 2 minutes.

Mark

[Ex_Machina_Engineering]

OK guys, I found a solution and I will tell you what it is for future reference.

When you try to upload the entire folder of files (all of them, parts and assemblies) at the same time, Fusion only asks for the top assembly. Not the assembly file for each subassembly or whatever.

Then I went into the windows folder and I noticed that out of all the assembly files, one was quite larger in file size than the rest.

To make sure before I tanked my Fusion 360 and internet connection to upload all those files, I downloaded Solidworks' free viewer called e-drawings. With that, I verified that that was indeed the top assembly.

I will now reattempt the upload by pointing to that as the top assembly. If that doesn't work I will upload every subassembly first after opening it in e-drawings and seeing which parts it contains.

At the end of the day, free viewers from each company are valuable, just like DWGViewer from Autodesk which i use A LOT!

[TheCADWhisperer · Accepted solution]

I just checked with Autodesk Viewer and I could open a SolidWorks assembly that included sub-assemblies and get a list of part files in each sub-assembly.

So you might only need one viewer.

I have created a video on the entire process which I will upload when it is finished compiling.

The Autodesk Viewer step in this process can be omitted if you know the top level assembly beforehand.

[Ex_Machina_Engineering]

I read your post and I whispered to myself:

"e-drawings: Uninstalled"

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@TheCADWhisperer wrote:

I just checked with Autodesk Viewer and I could open a SolidWorks assembly that included sub-assemblies and get a list of part files in each sub-assembly.

So you might only need one viewer.

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