Importing 3dcadbrowser.com models into SolidWorks ... ??

Jan 20, 2004 3 Replies

I'm designing a bicycle accessory and need a generic-looking mountain bike to use as a backdrop. Since modeling a bike would take me a long time, I purchased a CAD model from these guys:

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3dcadbrowser.com has over 3000 good-looking models for download and the prices are reasonable ($10/model). I got several of a mountain bike in .dxf, .3ds and .wrl however, try as I might, I can't get any of them to import properly into SolidWorks (2003).

Does anyone have tips on how to work with models from



3dcadbrowser.com? Could Rhino be used as an intermediary to get them imported?

Failing that, is there anywhere I can get hold of a decent looking mountain bike in SolidWorks?



Thanks



Peter


Peter,

Most of those models are polymesh, which are pretty useless for SW.

They do have a few NURBS IGES files which should, at least, import as real surfaces.

Regards

Mark

Try this you can purchase all kinds of mountain bikes in different 3d file formats. Hope it helps you.

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