Open the folder in which the SLDPRT file is stored on your computer. Expand the 'Tools' tab located in the top toolbar. Select 'Folder Options,' which will open a new window. Click the 'View' tab in the window that appears and scroll to the bottom of the menu in the window. Remove the check mark in the box next to 'Hide extensions for known file types.' Right-click the SLDPRT file in the folder and choose 'Rename.'
What you need to convert a SLDPRT file to a PDF file or how you can create a PDF version from your SLDPRT file. Files of the type SLDPRT or files with the file extension.sldprt can be easily converted to PDF with the help of a PDF printer. Find and select the Solidworks file you want to convert and click Open. Note: This option is not available in AutoCAD LT How to convert Solidworks files to the.dwg format| AutoCAD| Autodesk Knowledge Network.
Delete 'SLDPRT' and type 'IGES' in its place. A warning prompt will appear stating 'If you change a file name extension, the file might become unusable. Are you sure you want to change it?'
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I have no issues bringing dwg or dxf files into SW but i often send stuff off to be waterjetted and they like dxf or dwg files. They can work with iges files but said dxf is better because their software doesnt use iges files. So what I have been doing is saving my parts as an iges file, open with inventor and export face as a dxf. I feel like this was covered before but i did a search and didnt find it.
Ive tried to save as.sat file with no luck(many different versions). They just dont have anything in them when opened in autocad. So is there a one shot wonder to take my file or just a face to dxf? Well the issue i have isnt with when i convert the model because i dont work on it in the converted format(which isnt totally true, sometime i delete some 3d data not needed for waterjet in the dwg/dxf format). I can send stl files out to the rapid proto guys no problem. I have solidcam so i can create Gcode in Solidworks to run on our cnc and it seems like I can export every other file type except dwg/dxf.
Unigraphics was able to do this and im sure im just missing something here in SW. The machine shop can use my iges file but he told me their omax software wont read it(i believe it cause i used omax before) so they take it into mastercam(which I also have) and convert it there. Its silly for them to do that.
I frequently have issues with filetypes. I have to send them 04 and later dwg/dxf files. They are supposed to upgrade at some point so this wont be an issue for long i hope.
This is really the second batch of parts ive taken from Solidworks to be waterjetted. Everything else ive machined in house but in the interest of time i sent some stuff out.
Im not sure why i can I can export a sheet metal face but not the face of a solid part. Once i get done with this solidcam part im working on ill give a few more ideas I have a shot. Thanks Josh and ramsay. Well it works from a drawing file but i cant say that its exactly what I want but I can work with it. The drawing file requires a little extra work thats avoided in Inventor where i can just select a face of a solid part and export to dxf. The first file is from inventor with a solid part.
Second pic os from right clicking on the flat pattern in solidworks. I was hoping i could find something like that where I was able to select a face inside the drawing and export it. If this isnt possible then its not but it would be nice:).
That is nice. I guess the way i do things i very rarely make a 'drawing' file of my part. Its all solid models then i either make NC files off the part and run the CNC personally or I send a dxf out for waterjet. So thinks like very large parts or parts created in assemblies I will have to save the part externally or suppress the other components before saving.
Its probably about the same amount of time to save as an IGES file then in Inventor just select the face I want, but the downside is now I have a sldprt, iges and dxf/dwg file. Thank you, at least now I know how it has to be done so I can prepare for it.
When you export as a dxf from the drawing as you did above, is there anyway to leave the border and drawing title block behind if its actually there? Or does it have to be deleted?