Importing Altium Step Files Into Solidworks Viewer
Contents. Tight collaboration between the ECAD and MCAD design environments is essential for many designers today. Altium Designer supports collaborating with SolidWorks, and other MCAD tools that can import Parasolid-format files, in the following ways: Extended Model Support 3 dimensional component models can either be created from Altium Designer objects, or a 3D model can be imported into a 3D Body object in either the PCB editor, or the PCB Library editor. The following 3D model formats can be used in Altium Designer:. Altium Designer 3D Body Objects, place these to build up the required component shape. STEP models -.Stp and.Step (203 & 214 formats) The following 3D model formats can also be used, once the MCAD Co-Designer: SOLIDWORKS® extension has been installed and licensed:. SolidWorks parts -.SldPrt (up to 2015 format).
Importing Altium Step Files Into Solidworks Viewer Free
Parasolid Models -.xt and.xb (up to V27) Generic model support now includes STEP, Parasolid or SolidWorks format models when choosing a model in the 3D Body dialog. Enabling the Extended Model and Parasolid Export Features Support for SolidWorks and Parasolid format models, and the Parasolid format export, is enabled by installing the MCAD Co-Designer: SOLIDWORKS® extension ( DXP » Extensions and Updates).
You will also require an MCAD Co-Designer - SOLIDOWRKS (R) license, which is enabled along with your regular Altium Designer license. Export in 3D Completed PCB designs can be exported in the following formats:. STEP 3D.
Parasolid text format (requires the MCAD Co-Designer: SOLIDWORKS® extension to installed and licensed) Select the required output format in the File » Export menu. Both formats can output all of the supported model kinds, so your board can use any mixture of 3D Bodies, STEP, Parasolid and SolidWorks models. A board exported in Parasolid format, displayed in, note that the copper was included in the export.
Support for Exporting Copper Copper can now be included in the 3D export of your PCB, if you export in the Parasolid format. The top layer copper, shown in Altium Designer on the left, and after the Parasolid file was imported into SolidWorks. Enable the required Copper Export Option in the. Note that including the copper can result in very large files that take a long time to generate and load into your preferred MCAD tool. Parasolid export supports including the copper in the exported file.
ID Project Category View Status Date Submitted Last Update 0000832 FreeCAD Feature public 2012-09-13 -07-01 10:19 Reporter vdhproducts Assigned To Priority normal Severity feature Reproducibility always Status closed Resolution fixed Product Version Target Version Fixed in Version 0.14 Summary 0000832: Original color STEP model lost in import Description Dear Sir/Madam, When I import a STEP file from 3DContentcentral(see uploaded file), the original colors of the STEP file are lost. There is only one color(green)left. In Altium designer the original color is intact. How can I import/export the original color?
Kind regards, Peter van Riessen Additional Information I am using freecad 0.13 1453(GIT)on Windows XP Professional SP3 Tags No tags attached. We can have STEP 214 the default one in File Open/Import but I want to have the simple STEP import, too - maybe only available in the Part menu. I recently discovered a crash in the OCAF framework which happened on a 64-bit machine with the file above and thus we need a way to at least load the plain data. Then, we should maybe split 'CAD formats', i.e. We have 3 items in the file type list instead of one. So, we have: 'STEP 214 (.step.stp)', 'IGES (.iges.igs)' and 'BREP (.brep.brp)' This solves the problem on the GNOME file dialog which hides all the file extensions.
I don't know why, but STEP colors don't work anymore in latest PPA version. I export a FreeCAD part which has a defined color as STEP, import it back, the imported part is always grey. I tried Edit - Import and Part - CAD import, with the same result. I imported the step file attached with this bug report, as well as the one in bug, same thing, all colors are lost. OS: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS Platform: 64-bit Version: 0.13.1764 (Git) Branch: master Hash: 043dc60403603a4bdeb4dadd8f4c830776fc9f52 Python version: 2.7.3 Qt version: 4.8.1 Coin version: 3.1.3 SoQt version: 1.5.0 OCC version: 6.5.0.