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Pavan Dittakavi
Pavan Dittakavi

Reputation: 3181

STEP to SolidWorks Part Conversion - Programatically

Are there any reference implementations on how to convert a STEP file to a SolidWorks Part file - I came across this one https://www.engineering.com/tutorials/importing-a-step-file-solidworks/ to convert a SolidWorks part to STEP file but not the otherway around. Please share if you have any inputs on this.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2390

Answers (1)

Bobby Jones
Bobby Jones

Reputation: 31

Solidworks will open a STEP file and recognize the geometry as a 'dumb' solid body, meaning the feature tree will be empty. This is enough for most use cases. Here's an example from the Solidworks API help.

If you are specifically asking about creating the feature tree, thats called feature translation. Software does exist, but its limited, and many implementations are custom.

Upvotes: 1

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