I realise I have asked many questions all at once, but they all came up at once....
I tried to insert an AutoCAD file into solidworks and it says that the file is invalid or incomplete? what would make it do that?
thanks
Mathew
importing from autocad
Mar 05, 2004
2 Replies
What are you trying to do? Make a Drawing in SolidWorks, or make a Part in SolidWorks? What is probably best is to Open the AutoCAD drawing, not insert it. In the dialog boxes that are presented upon Opening an ACAD drawing you will have the choice to create a Drawing or a Part. If you're trying to make a Part, first make an AutoCAD block out of JUST the views that you want to pull in as sketches, and refer to the Help regarding 2D to 3D conversion.
Mark 'Sporky' Staplet>
It's most likely a messed up acad drawing.
If you have another program or acad, try and open it and see if it still is messed up or.. open it in acad and export it as a dxf or another acad version.
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