Importing Solidworks Drawings

Samuel_Dischner

Hello,

 I am trying to bring in some drawings made in solidworks to onshape but it wont import as an editable drawing like a model would? Does onshpae lack the capability to import these drawings?

Hakro

To import drawings into Onshape you first have to create dwg or dxf files in SolidWorks. An then import these dwg/dxf files into Onshape.

See also online help:

https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/translation.htm?tocpath=Importing %26 Exporting Files|_____1

And if you want to edit the imported drawing, you need the integrated app "ARES Kudo" from the app store:

https://www.graebert.com/cad-software/ares-kudo-for-onshape/

S1mon

Basically importing drawings will not get you an associative drawing. You can get a dumb 2D drawing which could be edited, but it's really only useful for legacy stuff. Anything active which you want to be connected to your 3D models will need to be recreated in Onshape Drawings.

philip_mally191

Would "ARES Kudo" be able to edit associated cad models or just the drawing?

S1mon

ARES Kudo is an AutoCAD clone. It will edit dumb drawings. It can edit lines/arcs/text etc. and put them on layers. It knows about drawing scale and can create dimensions, but it knows nothing about 3D geometry. Think of it as an electronic glorified manual drafting board.

martin_kopplow

To bring in legacy 2D drawings for visual reference I'd just create a PDF in the source application and attach to my Onshape document. If it is to be used to pull geometry from (e.g. as a sketch, to recreate the 3D model), I'd create a DXF and import that into a sketch.

But if I had access to the 3D SW model anyway, I'd just import that and get on working on that, or recreate it, depending on complexity and amount of modifications planned. That would allow to pull a new fully associated drawing from the model in it's current and all future states.