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SolidSmack: SolidWorks Tips To Import Sketches and Enjoy People’s Company

  • mingsish · 1 year ago
    GLORIOUS!!!! I was just about to ask you about this. I'm not kidding. It was yesterday, but you were about to leave for the day.... are you clairvoyant?
  • Jeff Mowry · 1 year ago
    Great tips! This stuff can be a real pain sometimes. Once I had such a mess on my hands I literally took screen shots of the ACAD file, patched them together in Photoshop and scaled the image to the proper size to use as a trace guide within SolidWorks. The problem was that all the segments were cut into tiny straight lines--almost none of which truly touched one another. Inserted the image into my sketch, started a new sketch and created "real" geometry I could use.
  • tyler524 · 1 year ago
    I have had to convert alot of old ACAD files into Solidworks. I have found, after many headaches and a few bottles of tylenol, that converting to polylines and joing them saves alot of pain. After I create my polyline, I move it so that the desired point is at the origin. I then right click my polyline and copy it. Next, I open up a new part file in Solidworks and paste it in. If it is not on the desired plane, I just right click the sketch in the feature manager and click edit sketch plane. This is what I have found that seems to work the best for me.
  • Rod_Uding · 1 year ago
    Great tip here Josh! Item number 5 is a great idea also, that kink of preparation to make you SW sketch work much better.

    I have learned one thing that helps me out importing sketches from AutoCAD. Move the all the stuff in AutoCAD to the correct location you want at the origin before importing, Saves me time trying to move it around in the SW sketch. Thankfully, I do not have to do this a lot :).
  • ali · 1 year ago
    i tried to draw a sketch in solidworks 2008 but i fall with error report as operation requires full defined sketch. what can ı do.Thanks for helpfulness