DWG &DXF converter

[bogusmill]

I'm trying to send a MCX drawing to a science museum that is using Solidworks. He said to use DWG or DXF. I have tried both and what he gets is blank. The file is 11Mb in MC and a STEP file is 13Mb but both DWG & DXF files are only 36kb.

 

Why is the save not working? Is there another file type I could use for this?

[Jimmy Wakeford from Barefoot CNC]

dwg and dxf contain no surface/solid info, maybe he means inventor files?

[Steve Landkamer]

If they have Solidworks you can save as a Parasolid file.

[Don Trust]

If your MCX file is a solid, you can save it as Autocad 2000 format (DWG) and it will show up as a solid in Acad, and should also in Solidworks.

 

If your MCX file is surfaces, convert to a solid first. Surfaces don't come over into .DWG.

 

Or, as already suggested you could use parasolid.

 

I just tested this on one of my files, and Autocad 2000 can read the solid (DWG) from MCX fine. Just not surfaces.

[Ed.G]

I believe Solidworks has a free viewer on their web site. You could try using it on your files before sending it out. Might work with Mastercam?

 

I was able to open a Mastercam 2D .DWG file in solidworks 2006 looked ok. I also saved a solid as a .DWG file and then tried opening it in Solidworks did not look good.

 

Try saving your solid as a parasolid.