3DCC-Uh Oh..........

[macduff]

Hello All,
I'm downloading a part and the only versions now are...SW2009, 2010 and 2011. What about our friends that are older versions of SW. I know they can download STEP or IGES, but that's not right.

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2010 SP 3.1
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer

 

[SnowCrash]

usually on downloads I prefer parasolids or whatever over SW native files unless I actually need features to modify parts.
Mcmaster parts are a PITA because they have left many sketches showing and I have to go into the part and hide things.

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Hardie "Crashj" Johnson
SW 2010 SP 4.0
HP Pavillion Elite HPE
W7 Pro, Nvidia Quaddro FX580

 

[DesignerGuy16]

What he said. For purchase parts, you're better to just bring them in as imported solids with no features. File size will be much lower, easier to resolve, etc. Also saves any "oops" accidental changes.

James Spisich
Design Engineer, CSWP

 

[JMarv]

Isn't this normal? 3DCC, or any site that uses 3dPartStream.net only supports the 3 most recent versions of SW. This is the excuse I always use to emphasize that we finally need to upgrade.

Joe
SW Office 2008 SP5.0
P4 3.0Ghz 3GB
ATI FireGL X1

 

[macduff]

Can someone do me a favor that has SW2009? Can you please download this native model in SW 2009 and tell me if it opens for you. I'm doing a little test here.

http://www.3dcontentcentral.com/secure/download-model.aspx?catalogid=171&id=214886

Thank you,



Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2010 SP 3.1
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer

 

[dgowans]

Colin,

I'm able to download and open the file in 2009, but I wouldn't say it's a native SWX 2009 model. The part opens and displays as I would expect it, but it contains two imported solid bodies and no history.

 

[macduff]

dgowans,
Thanks so much for doing my little test.

I was just seeing if SW had a backwards file converter. I made the model in SW2010 then uploaded to 3DCC. I saw listed SW2009 download capability (the reason for my test).

I was going to kick and scream to SW if it converted to SW2009. LOL!

Thanks,

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2010 SP 3.1
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer