New to SW......need advice

[SBRIRONMAN]

I used PRO-E for the last 12 years and just switched over to SW2010 for mechanical design. I am having some trouble getting soem task done. I was hoping maybe someone on this board could point me in the reight direction or offer the tips needed.

* I have been giving the task of changing many parts of a motor design and DUPING all the orginal parts to a new drawing numbering system. So, I get the motor assembly in a IGS extension. I go and open this up, it takes about 10minutes to load and I have my 3D motor. I then select those parts I need one at a time and re-save as a copy. I will change the copied version and leave the original design in tack. I open the duped part to start a change and the model tree has ANNOTATIONS, SENSORS, SOLID BODIES, SURFACE BODIES, MATERIAL, 3 PLANES LISTED, ORGIN and SURFACE -IMPORTED.

I see no listing of the extrusions, cuts, holes etc to edit.

What am I doing wrong ?

I really do not want to re-3D this part.

Do I have to do some sort of conversion of the exisitng geometry ?

Again, all new to SW and need some advice here.

Thanks
Mark

 

[rollupswx]

Run Feature Recognition.
I would have used native Pro/E, Parasolid or STEP in that order before using IGES, but you will still have to run Feature Recognition.

 

[rollupswx]

Also, run Import Diagnostics.
You only need to run feature recognition on those features that actually need to be changed.
If everything is wrong with the parts I would discuss the problem with the original designer.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

http://help.solidworks.com/2011/Eng...cyHelp/Sldworks/ImpExp/Pro_ENGINEER_files.htm

The Pro/ENGINEER translator imports Pro/ENGINEER part or assembly files as SolidWorks part or assembly documents. The attributes, features, sketches, and dimensions of the Pro/ENGINEER part are imported. If all of the features in the file are not supported, you can choose to import the file as either a solid body or a surface model. The Pro/ENGINEER translator supports import of free curves, wireframes, and surface data.

Version Information - Versions 17 through 2001 of Pro/ENGINEER and Wildfire versions 1 - 4 are supported. Import of assembly features is not supported.

In other words. try to get a native Pro/e file formats. Preferably from a version listed above.

Any other formats will produce a dumb solid (ie. without features), and as rollupswx stated, FeatureWorks will need to be used to recognise features to an editable condition.
Although Direct Edit functions may be used to edit dumb solids.

Either way, the Pro/E drawings will not be carried over into SW.
PDFs can be used to archive the Pro/E drawings. You could also consider getting eDrawings for Pro/E to archive both model and drawing.