I have an application whereby the client wants us to export all our SW drawings into Autocad.
It is a requirement for them that the main drawing be in the model space, and the titleblock, annotations and dimensions etc remain in the paper space.
Is there a way of achieving this? At the moment it would seem like we may have to double our workload to do so.
I know this post has been out for a while, but we run into the same thing at my workplace. What I have done is created a title block that works the same between solidworks and autocad. Then, when exporting the drawing from solidworks to autocad, I do a block update and you virtually can't tell the difference between the solidworks and the autocad drawings. I've made some icons and such that help with this transition, but people have been using it here significantly, without any issues. Is it 100% fool proof...probably not, but it save soooo much time when every drawing has to be converted into AutoCad.
There are a couple of commands that make this possible, some of them are only in the non-LT version of autocad.
Hi Brandon,
I am faced with the exact same problem. Can you please explain more how you achieved this solution?
Thanks!
Hi there,
Hope this is not too late for a reply. But I was just surfing on the internet hoping to find some tools that would help me take my SW models to AutoCAD for further editing purposes. Usually I get the SW files from my Design team and it just doesn't fit in the AutoCAD environment at all. So, I found this tool called BIMDeX plugins especially for our use case - SW to AutoCAD Exporter. This was super easy, I just like Exported the SW model and then Imported inside my ACAD platform using their plugins and to my surprise it got the perfect model converted to ACAD with no loss in geometry or such. Even the properties and material info was retained as it is. I guess, this might be a good deal, test it out if you have the time and share us your thoughts. I would be happy to think that i was able to help other as well...
Thanks!!
Hi there,
Hope this is not too late for a reply. But I was just surfing on the internet hoping to find some tools that would help me take my SW models to AutoCAD for further editing purposes. Usually I get the SW files from my Design team and it just doesn't fit in the AutoCAD environment at all. So, I found this tool called BIMDeX plugins especially for our use case - SW to AutoCAD Exporter. This was super easy, I just like Exported the SW model and then Imported inside my ACAD platform using their plugins and to my surprise it got the perfect model converted to ACAD with no loss in geometry or such. Even the properties and material info was retained as it is. I guess, this might be a good deal, test it out if you have the time and share us your thoughts. I would be happy to think that i was able to help other as well...
Thanks!!
If you have design authority, and own the drawings/models, I would only send them PDFs. Once they get the DXF/DWG, they own them.
I do not think there is a direct option but you may check with API if there is a possibility to get a customized program made.