Solidworks To Blender



By importing it in Blender, we can apply simulations, physical renderers and much more to the model. Solidworks is a powerful 3D cad drawing program, used by engineers and product designers and mainly works with surfaces and curves. Blender is one of the most popular and powerful open source 3D editors and mainly works with polygons. This tutorial will show you to export a CAD file (Solidworks parts and assemblies,.step or.iges files, etc.) to be used in Blender, using an.STL. From SolidWorks all the way to Blender, the Steps: Save your Solid Works model in it’s native Solid assembly or Solid part file format “asm, sldasm, prt, sldprt”. In Simlab Composer, from the file menu select “Import” and select the file you saved in Solid Works. Hello everybody, I want to import a huge file made in solidworks into blender. It's about an industrial machine with everything (screws included). I need to import it in blender to create some animation and renderings but I was wondering which is the best way of importing big assembly.

I have high quality models in Blender with smooth edges. My aim is to 3D print these models but when exporting files in STL format it results in models with rough edges. Does anyone have any tips on getting these models to solidworks without loss of quality?

Solidworks To Blender

Btw, I prefer to use Solidworks as I am most comfortable with it.

1 Answer

I've never used Blender, but it most likely has a smooth shader to make models appear smoother than they really are.
Are there any settings to adjust when saving an STL file from Blender? There are usually options to adjust the mesh density, chord length, or angle of deviation.

If no export options exist, you may need to increase the mesh density before exporting. Does Blender use triangles or quads? Are there options to subdivide the mesh? Try subdividing a few times, then export.

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Keep in mind that subdividing too much will eventually lead to very large file sizes.

Importing STL files into SW is generally a bad idea. I guess it depends on what you have to do to the models.

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Pastry Blender: Modeled the way it is manufactured, the blades of this pastry cutter are cut in the flat pattern then folded to create the final shape. This creates smoother edges than other possible modeling methods. Sketched Bend forms all 5 blades in one feature.

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Complexity: Basic
Features: Insert Bends, Linear Pattern, Sketched Bend, Mirror, Body Delete

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