SolidWorks to Inventor

[DB007]

A client has sent a solid works 'model' consisting of a folder of about 200 SLDASM and SLDPRT files, no one here has any experience with Solidworks. Is there a single project file that can open all of the assemblies together in Inventor? So far opening some of the SLDASM files only open a small part of the bigger picture!

 

We don't use inventor either, we are looking for a way of converting the solidworks to DWG format and thought inventor would be the quickest method?

 

Thanks

[JD Mather]

Most likely you have an assembly containing many sub-assemblies (good practice).

You simply need to ask the client which sldasm is the master assembly and Inventor will also open all sub-assemblies.

or

you can open each assembly yourself until you find the top level assembly.

[DB007]

Thanks, I will ask the question.

 

In the meantime I started to assume the larger file sizes would be the larger assemblies, so tried to open a 11mb SLDASM file in Inventor and it just hung after a few mins without fully opening, is this common for converting Solidworks files in Inventor? Is a 11mb SLDASM a particularly big solidworks assembly?

[JD Mather]

You might also check what (latest) version of SolidWorks any of the files were created in and state what version of Inventor you are using.

(SolidWorks 2012 came out AFTER Inventor 2012 so Inventor 2012 would not read any files created in SWx 2012.)

 

The best bet might be for them to save the top level assembly as *.stp (STEP format).