Is there a way to keep the relations/constraints made in SolidWorks when I export to AutoCAD?
I saved the SolidWorks file as a .dxf and a .dwg and then imported that to AutoCAD, however, the relations/constraints are erased. Is there a way I can keep the relations/constraints?
You saved the part file or drawing file as a dxf?
It was 2D, so I'm assuming it was a drawing file.
Constraints are kept within the model, not the drawing. The drawing is (for lack of a better term) just an outline of the model. Constraints are model based, not drawing based. I do not th ink there is a way to do this.
Thanks for your response. There is no 3D model. There is only a 2D drawing. The constraints were added to the 2D drawing.
I am going to say a flat "NO". Constraints like it has been mentioned before is strictly
in the Solidworks a model thing, not a drawing thing. As I was reading this before I read the
last posting thought it might work if you were going from a SW model to Inventor it might
work. Sorry I could not give you better news.
K.F.,
Unlike what Scott and Kris said, constraints do exist in 2D as well as the 3D model. But SW doesn't import the constraints (horizontal, vertical, perpendicular, coincident, colinear, etc.) when you import a .dxf or .dwg, so it seems quite likely that they aren't exported with a .dxf or .dwg. I think you are out of luck.
SW does have a tool that attempts to add constraints to imported drawings/sketches. Perhaps AutoCAD has one as well.
Jerry Steiger
