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Re: I want to put .dat files into SolidWorks
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lugnet.cad
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Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:59:42 GMT
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Some further progress. It turns out that I was able to convert a .DAT file to
.STL with LDView & import it into SolidWorks, but it further turned out that,
once I'd imported an .STL file into SolidWorks, I couldn't do very much with it.
I can't mate or manipulate it or even display it very well--there's no
selectable geometry.
So, I performed many experiments on part file formats that SolidWorks *can*
import and that I *can* use for assemblies & such:
IGES: .IGS or .IGES
ProE: .PRT
ACIS: .SAT
STEP AP203: .STEP
STEP AP214: .STEP
SolidWorks: .SLDPRT
VDAFS: .VDA
Parasolid: .X_T
Parasolid Binary: .X_B
So, that broadens my target quite a bit. If I can get help converting a .DAT
file into any of those formats, I'm set!
Anybody got insight on this?
Thanks,
-Jason
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| (...) The modeling strategies for Solidworks and LDraw are fundamentally different: LDraw is based on triangle meshes, and Solidworks is based on constructive solid geometry. Going from CSG to mesh is easy, but going the other way requires some AI (...) (13 years ago, 26-Oct-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| Hi- I seem to want to do something a little bit backwards relative to what most people & most converters seem to be doing... :) I'm a die-hard SolidWorks user & wish to import LDraw .dat models into SolidWorks. I'm having some trouble. Here's what (...) (13 years ago, 24-Oct-11, to lugnet.cad)
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