I am trying to open my 2d sketches from Sigmanest 8.1 . I export them as a dxf file and when I use the solidworks wizard to open them it sometimes works and other times I get an error saying it's 228 points are out of modeling limit and 13 entities could not be imported. Then if I take a sketch in solidworks premium 2011 and save it as a dxf file and then try to open it with the wizard it does the same thing so it must be a glitch in solidworks. Is there any way around this? Also I can import it as a 3d model but then I cant extrude it or do anything with it. Any help would be great
Welcome to SolidWorks forums Joseph.
Open your DXF file with DraftSight (a free 2d editor) and then copy paste the sketches or the entities from there to SolidWorks.
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