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Importing geometry

Importing geometry - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Importing geometry

SolidWorks can work with many types of files, and imported geometry. Sheet metal parts import just like any other dumb solid. Dumb solid, you say? What is that? The one characteristic of an imported geometry is there's no feature tree. All the geometry is there. However, you cannot directly change the features. However, you can add or cut through the shape. Once we have the solid imported, we can then use the Convert to Sheet Metal command to start working with the part. Let's try it out. Let's go up to file, Open and in this case here I have an IGS file which is 4.3 IGS that I'd like to open. I also want to point out while I'm here that you can click on the File menu and choose all the types of files. And you can see everything we have we can import or work with. Our standard Solidworks files. And we can import Dump Solids, or Universal Interchange formats like IGES, or Step files. So I'm going to go ahead and choose the IGES file, 4.3.iges, click OK, and it's going to import the…

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