Happy Friday to All,
My Company upgraded our SolidWorks Suite in May to 2017, since then we have had an issue with Composer. It hasn't been until recently that the issue has been consistent. Through numerous iterations of testing and calls to support i have identified that the import option "Import Free Faces" is the cause for the translation error. This would be great to just leave unchecked, but for my company a lot of our purchased components are still surfaces or a mix of solid bodies and surfaces. Leaving this setting unchecked has the potential to create confusion and a layer of complexity as we try to just deal with it and add in the information in a different manner.
I have checked my settings in SolidWorks (inlcuding unchecking Large Assembly Mode and Light Weight Components) and in Composer and i can not see anything that i have missed, maybe i have been working on this too long. So my question to the community is the following
- Is anyone else having this issue?
- Is there a combination of settings that allows you to still import free faces
if you really feel compelled to help me trouble shoot i will attach a list of my composer settings, also attached is the error message.
thanks in advance
you guys are the best
Hi Kray,
never before i had Problems with this Option "Import free faces".
There is no influence from the other Options in Composer, you have shown in the doxc file.
Have you tried to export the assembly directly from Solidworks as .smg and then open it in Composer?
Have you tried to export the assembly as an Step file and then import this in Composer?
p.s. i did not use "Import hidden components" but this dosn't have any effect on your Problem.