Solidworks->DWG->Rhinoceros / part references

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Hi,

I am currently working on solidworks, creating drawings of assemblies. These drawings also include views of the parts that are in this assemblies.
After export in .dwg format, all I get is a drawing only made of curves and surfaces, references to the parts is lost.
Is there a way to export both assembly drawings and parts that are used in the same assembly, in order to keep the references in rhinoceros?
Hope it was clear enough.

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Thanks

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That seems like a Solidworks export issue. Can you export to STP? This works well for Catia, the parts come in as named Blocks. Similar to Revit - Autocad export.

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From a solidworks drawing sheet, my only export options are .dwg and .dfx, which I already tried.
Exporting one of my drawings to stp gives this:
The assembly is only 1 block
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Here is what I can get, I am still not able to open the parts individually, all I can do is ‘stretching’ the parts, I can’t clic the lines inside the part.

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From those screenshots I can’t really tell but it might look like that is 3D geometry that is coming in.

You can use the ExplodeBlock command to get rid of that block instance.

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typically it comes in as nested blocks, so you would have your assembly level block:next level:etc.

If you post a file i can show you some options.

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You can with this file, thanks

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This requires the elefront plugin.

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Step file Blocks_re.gh (7.8 KB)

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Thanks, I am acutallu using Rhino 5 (mac version), I can’t read your .gh file, would it be fine for you to make it v5 suitable ?