I've been trying to import and IGES assembly into Solidworks without success.
It's something I used to be able to do but recently I can't. I think some of my settings were accidentally changed.
When I import, it allows the file to be opened but there is not geometry to be seen; it's just blank.
I have tried checking several options in the IGES import options but nothing seems to work (i.e. Try forming solid, knit surfaces, merge entities, import as solid body/surface body...)
Help! Very frustrating!!
Hi Alexandra,
I have just had exactly the same problem.
See post from Kenneth Barrentine
"also, under tools> options> default templates> do you have prompt selected?"
My import was not finding a default template and I just OKed the "use the empty one" dialogue box and I ended up with an assembly with no geometry in it. When I set the "prompt user to select document template", and then picked my usual template in the list, it worked fine.
I have recently upgraded to SW2009 and have not got around to setting my templates up properly yet. It looks like it needs a template of some description to achieve geometry. I used the templates I had been using from SW2007 and it worked fine.