Importing from Solidworks

Zeyad Gamal

We import parts from SolidWorks 2016 to analyze with HyperMesh Studen Edition 2018. The geometry is imported properly, however the sketches are not imported.

For example if I draw a circle on a face of a part, when I import the geometry I get the part but the circle sketch is not imported.

I have seen in many tutorials people importing geometry that includes sketches.

Is there something I can do in HyperMesh or SolidWorks to be able to import thses sketches ?

For example I want HyperMesh to import this part with the highlighted sketch. 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

Q.Nguyen-Dai

Try: Solidworks => STEP => Hypermesh ?

Zeyad Gamal

Same, no sketches imported.

I tried Solidowrks, iges and step.

 

Q.Nguyen-Dai

I used Siemens NX as CAD software. Here's my test within NX with sketch (of two circles):

 

From NX, I exported into STEP file and then imported into Hypermesh. Here's I got:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

 

 

Q.Nguyen-Dai

Here're options of STEP export from NX:

 

Maybe you have similar options in Solidworks? I don't have Solidworks, so I can't test.

Zeyad Gamal

Yup that did it, did not occur to me to adjust the options from SolidWorks itself, because in Solidworks you have Save As instead of Export.

 

Thank you so much for your help it has been very useful.