SolidWorks file export

[davecuster]

I have several clients a month bringing in .sldasm, .sldprt file types and I can only open 2003 to 2007 SW files in Inventor.

Is there anyone willing to resave a few files for me as an older version of SW?

Or any other file type I can open in Inventor or AutoCAD

 

Thanks in advance.

[shift1313]

Hey dave, are your clients not willing to export the files as iges or stl files for you? What version of SW are they running?

[davecuster]

Apparantly not....the client was basically tired of dealing with the designer and he didnt get the file types I asked him to have exported.

Ive learned not to ask who was doing the design work for a client up to that point.

I have an add-in for Inventor '08 that should allow me to open sld files (as long as its '03 to '07), even though they will come in a dumb solids.....but yes, iges, acis,stp....etc, would all do the trick.

[shift1313]

What year SW are they using? 2010?

[davecuster]

I cannot open the files, so I have no idea what year SW the files were created in......

[JD Mather]

Hey dave, are your clients not willing to export the files ...stl files for you?

 

I don't thing stl would be of much use. STEP (*.stp) probably the easiest to work with.

 

Might be time to upgrade to Inventor 2011 to open later version of SWx files (up to 2010).

[shift1313]

I don't thing stl would be of much use. STEP (*.stp) probably the easiest to work with.

 

Might be time to upgrade to Inventor 2011 to open later version of SWx files (up to 2010).

 

yeah ive been sending a lot of files out for rapid proto and have stl on the brain:)

[bhamze]

I run SW 2010. I can open your files and export them as IGES files. Would this help?

[davecuster]

Absolutely.......

 

The uploader on the site is either not working, or painfully slow....

 

my direct email is davec@maxmfg.com

 

thanks in advance....