Models created in Mastercam 2024 - How to save for opening in Solidworks?

[Minus 40]

Hi,

I have an assembly that was completely created in Mastercam 2024. There are 30 parts in it.  We are having trouble finding an extension that'll work for opening it in Solidworks. Do any of you have experience with this? If so what extension has given you the most success?

 

[Chally72]

Saving as a parasolid- (.x_t) is the best solution, as both Mastercam and Solidworks use the parasolid kernel for modelling and there will be no translation or transformation of data when saving out to, and opening from, the parasolid format. Depending on the version mismatch between Mastercam and Solidworks, you may have to go into the Options box in the save dialog to set the output Parasolid version to a lower version that is supported by the older of the two packages you have installed.

[Minus 40]

Thanks Dylan, that's good information.

[Minus 40]

We still are having trouble opening Mastercam 2024 files in SW 2021. Does anyone else know how to make it work? We've tried converting as Parasolid and to lower versions as well. We have tried all three STEP formats and a number of IGES formats as well.

[gcode]

1 hour ago, Minus 40 said:

We've tried converting as Parasolid

when saving the file from Mastercam 

select Save As 

then select file type X_T or X_B ( it doesn;t matter which)

then select Options and chose 30 or 31 and click OK

That file will open in SW2021

 

 

[Minus 40]

I will give that a try tomorrow gcode. Thanks.