Importing SLDPRT with just sketches?

S1mon

I have an old Solidworks part file which, if I remember correctly, is just a few sketches, all on the same plane. It's just a simple floor plan of an apartment with some rectangles for furniture. I have the .SLDDRW and .PDF which were created from it. I don't have access to a seat of Solidworks to fully review what I did, but I can open the Solidworks stuff in eDrawings.

I'm trying to import some version of this into Onshape. When I do that with the .SLDPRT, I get one curve, which I think it the first sketch. This gives an error on import as well. Is this normal?

Aside from finding someone with a seat of Solidworks to export the original as a .DXF, are there any free ways to extract the info from the files? I don't have Illustrator to open the PDF and export a DXF.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/07a5e87188cf1bcb4d137795/w/d7eafb88ea444920c77790b2/e/67f2ec2321a18a9915afce28

mahir

Try Inkscape. It's basically a freeware version of Illustrator. It can easily import PDFs and it has the option to export DXF among other things.

mahir

Try Inkscape. It's basically a freeware version of Illustrator. It can easily import PDFs and it has the option to export DXF among other things.

mahir

I noticed your document has the SW file. I went ahead and converted it to DXF for you.

S1mon

@mahir
Thanks. Inkscape is a little clunky, but it does open the .PDF and export a DXF. It's a little crazy how the text and arcs are turned into a zillion lines, but that did the trick for now.

mahir

Check my last post for what should be a cleaner DXF generated by SW. Also, Inkscape probably has some knobs to turn for both PDF import and DXF export that should reduce the number of line entities.

S1mon

@mahir
The Zipped DXF was better than what I could get from the the PDF -> Inkscape -> DXF -> Onshape. The text is still a mess, but it's not critical for my needs. Thanks.