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JPJacob Pribyl23/02/2009
I'm having trouble importing a complete assembly from
SolidWorks into Mastercam. What I want is a full wireframe along
with the solid bodies, but when trying to open a solidworks file
directly from Mastercam I get a 'Cannot find Parasolid data in
Solidworks file' error when trying to open it with MCX2 MR2, and
'Only Assemblies from Solidworks 2003 and later can be read' error
with MCX3.
If I use a parasolid the solid bodies come in fine but only part of the wireframe is correctly loaded.
Parasolid
STEP files will let me import a complete wireframe along with the solid but the wireframe is all lines and splines, even when it should be arcs, the only file type I've found that will let me import a full correct wireframe is IGES, which won't do solid bodies.
IGES
To get a full assembly into Mastercam right now I have to import an IGES wireframe and merge it with a parasolid and fix the levels for all the parts manually, which gets kind of tedious after the first couple hundred levels. Anyone have any suggestions or workarounds?
If I use a parasolid the solid bodies come in fine but only part of the wireframe is correctly loaded.
Parasolid
STEP files will let me import a complete wireframe along with the solid but the wireframe is all lines and splines, even when it should be arcs, the only file type I've found that will let me import a full correct wireframe is IGES, which won't do solid bodies.
IGES
To get a full assembly into Mastercam right now I have to import an IGES wireframe and merge it with a parasolid and fix the levels for all the parts manually, which gets kind of tedious after the first couple hundred levels. Anyone have any suggestions or workarounds?