EDrawings to Solidworks file?

[monkeys]

Can anyone suggest a way of changing a ".edrw" to a ".slprt"?

http://www.btinternet.com/~smithgowanbank/TLS-GD2-3D.edrw

I want to change the above file into a Solidworks part - is there an easy way?

thanks,

Callum

 

[ctopher]

You can not create a part from the eDrawing. You can measure it, then create new from the dims.

Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP1.1 / PDMWorks 05
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[MElam]

If they allowed STL export when they created it, you could save-as .stl and open that in SWx.

Otherwise, contact the company and ask nicely for the file?

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

From an .eprt, yes, but not from an .edrw


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[MElam]

In that case, you're stuck with my "Otherwise" mentioned above.

 

[Theophilus]

Can you open STL parts in SW? If so, do you get anything useful, or just a bunch of triangle surfaces?


Jeff Mowry

http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com

Reality is no respecter of good intentions.

 

[tables]

Yes you can. I've not had any problems with it as of yet. The only draw back I see in opening this file type is that you are unable to use feature recongnize and also not able to measure the solid part with tools>measure. You however can use the model to implement into an assembly and etc.

Terry Ables
Micro Plastics Inc.

http://www.microplastics.com

 

[MElam]

You can open them, but check the options when you do. Make sure to bring it in a bodies or surfaces in order to do anything at all.

And yes, it will be a bunch of triangle surfaces . . .

 

[MElam]

That should have been AS bodies or surfaces