From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Importing Geometry From Other Applications

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Importing DWG and DXF files to create drawings

Importing DWG and DXF files to create drawings - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Importing Geometry From Other Applications

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Importing DWG and DXF files to create drawings

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- [Instructor] Of all the processes that we come across when importing geometry into SolidWorks, creating a new SolidWorks drawing from imported 2D data is one of the easiest options. You can see here a drawing that I have created as a DWG file that I downloaded off of McMaster-Carr. I'm going to go ahead and open this up in SolidWorks and convert this to a 2D SolidWorks drawing which will then be native of SolidWorks and a little bit easier for me to handle down the road. Let's go ahead and go into SolidWorks. We start like in any other processes by going up to our open dialogue box and navigating to the part that we want to bring in. So, here we can see the DWG file and just a note, by selecting the DWG file type from the drop down window here we can filter out so that only DWG files are shown. So if you have a big directory filled of DWG files or a mix of files, that can be handy. We go ahead and click open and SolidWorks brings up another prompt specifically for DXF and DWG…

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