Hi Forum, I send step and iges files to colleagues from Rhino V6 or V7. What they are getting is a file that is unusable to them ( such as making holes or fitting parts ). Is there a setting or something I am unaware of to make the file more user friendly? Thank you ,Mark They are using Solidworks…

I don’t use Solidworks. What would the import setting be? Thank you,Mark

Hello - Rhino does not save any construction history and SW expects that - depending on what is in the file, SW feature recognition can work variably well to reconstruct a construction tree that is editable in SW - I would have them at least try that. A more useful workflow might be to build the mo…

Also see: [image] Rhino 2015 to Solidworks 2015 Rhino for Windows [image] -wim

So here’s what would be helpful…at least providing screen shots of what the model looks like in Rhino and how it looks in Solidworks. What you’re describing doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. They could be seeing surfaces and/or solids when brought into Solidworks. If you can’t share the screen shot…

You are right. It is a boat deck( which can’t be shown) , but from what I gather what they get is an object that nothing can be done with, such as making holes ( Where needed) or putting anything in added, requires a construction plane to build it in. I will quiz them more on it. Thank you for the …

I will give them the info.-Mark

Hi @markintheozarks I move files from Rhino 6 and 7 to SWX frequently, and hardly ever experience major problems, that are not easily solvable on either the Rhino or the SWX side. You need to provide an example of a file that doesn’t work and specify what goes wrong. A couple of things worth mentio…

Hi Jakob, I am going to pass this info to the guys that use Solidworks. Do you work for Mcneel? What I work with , the public can’t see. What I worked on here recently had over 2000 surfaces . These are joined into a single poly surface. From that I export it to usually a step file. I will see if…

One other thing , how much does file tolerance come into play in importing files between softwares , I wonder?

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Read it thank you. -Mark

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