Has anyone else seen this kind of mess while saving a Solidworks drawing to .DWG?
I've tried every tweak in the output settings and gutted the model of complicated parts, but it does this every time.
All these lines criss-crossing all over the views.
You have parts that are surface only?
Agreed Frederick. I have seen this with surfaces. The solution I found was to simply thicken the surfaces by a very small amount, add them to the drawing, then save the DWG.
And not just with Solidworks, either. CATIA V5 and I-DEAS both did this same thing with surfaces that were saved to a DWG. I think it has more to do with the DWG translation than it does Solidworks.
No surfaces at all. Just several fairly complicated views of a small machine.
All the diagonal lines that are shooing around the screen between views is the issue.
But I did find a solution just a half hour ago! We were saving the files out as R2000 format. Simply going back to saving as R14 format or below did the trick and the output is clean and correct.
I guess I need to admit that I DIDN'T try every tweak in the settings!
I have seen messy conversions, Dimension styles, View scales,Blocks.
SW creates Blocks from certain entities, not sure what all qualifies. multi line text typically.
"SW_NOTE_1"etc. if you combine dwg files you have to make sure to explode the blocks first or the block will be overridden.
different dimension styles on the same View?
is Your conversion one single file from a single sheet?
have you tried Dxf instead?
Andy Sanders - It's hard to tell what's happening without seeing the model. Are those lines sketch lines or axis lines or dimensions?? Did you hide all your annotations, except the dimension lines, I've never seen that..
Did you tried to fix as solid all the components?
I sometime see this with drawings which contain a "surface" model. Or possibly a imported model with an issue.
No surfaces at all. Just several fairly complicated views of a small machine.
All the diagonal lines that are shooing around the screen between views is the issue.
But I did find a solution just a half hour ago! We were saving the files out as R2000 format. Simply going back to saving as R14 format or below did the trick and the output is clean and correct.
I guess I need to admit that I DIDN'T try every tweak in the settings!