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How to get mastercam to read SW sketches? MC2018


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1 minute ago, AMCNitro said:

We're exporting as Parasolids from SW.  

 

Maybe I am not understanding what you're doing?

Are you talking about the internal SW' sketches that define the solid? or the Drawing file that gets created?

Either way, importing the native file is likely the way to go...make sure in your config >> Converters that Import Solidworks History is checked

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Just now, JParis said:

Maybe I am not understanding what you're doing?

Are you talking about the internal SW' sketches that define the solid? or the Drawing file that gets created?

Either way, importing the native file is likely the way to go...make sure in your config >> Converters that Import Solidworks History is checked

Im sorry for not being more specific.  The mold designer is exporting cavities from SW, he saves as Parasolids.  We use part numbers on all the cavities and right now using the regular way takes too long to machine.  They want us to start using stick fonts, but they don't want us to set the p/n on MC, their solution is to use sketches on SW, but when they export the designs the sketches from SW don't export on the file.

Thank you!

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8 minutes ago, AMCNitro said:

We're exporting as Parasolids from SW.  

 

You need to read the native to get the drawings and you must have Solidworks installed on the same system is the only way I think this will work. I could be wrong, but seems Solidworks is the one that requires this not Mastercam. Have them try to save the drawings as DXF and the solids as Parasolids and see if that works.

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To import sketches the file needs to be a native .SLDPrt file.  When you go to open the file you need to open the options tab.  This can also be set in the defaults if you want it on all the time.  

For this to work you need to at least be at the same version of Solidworks as the file you are bringing in, newer is okay.

This will open up a new can of worms with crashing while opening up solidworks files though.. so there is that. 😤

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