Importing/Exporting SOLIDWORKS Documents
You can import files to the SOLIDWORKS software from other applications. You can export SOLIDWORKS documents to a number of formats for use with other applications. For links to help on the various file types, see File Types. The following table displays the data translation methods available:
| Parts | Assemblies | Drawings | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | Import | Export | Import | Export | Import | Export |
| 3D XML | X | X | ||||
| ACIS | X | X | X | X | ||
| Adobe Illustrator | X | X | X | X | ||
| Adobe Photoshop | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Adobe Portable Document Format | X | X | X | |||
| Autodesk Inventor | X | X | ||||
| CADKEY | X | X | ||||
| CATIA Graphics | X | X | X | X | ||
| CATIA V5 | X | X | ||||
| DXF/DWG files | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| DXF 3D | X | |||||
| eDrawings | X | X | X | |||
| Highly Compressed Graphics | X | X | ||||
| HOOPS | X | X | ||||
| IDF 2.0, 3.0 (CircuitWorks Lite) | X | |||||
| IDF 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 (CircuitWorks) | X | X | X | |||
| IFC | X | X | X | X | ||
| IGES | X | X | X | X | ||
| JPEG | X | X | X | |||
| JT | X | X | ||||
| Mechanical Desktop | X | X | ||||
| PADS (*.asc) (CircuitWorks) | X | X | X | |||
| Parasolid | X | X | X | X | ||
| X | X | X | ||||
| ProE/Creo | X | X | X | X | ||
| ProStep EDMD (*.idx) (CircuitWorks) | X | X | X | |||
| Rhino | X | |||||
| ScanTo3D | X | X | ||||
| Solid Edge | X | X | ||||
| STEP | X | X | X | X | ||
| STL | X | X | X | X | ||
| TIFF | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Unigraphics/NX™ | X | X | ||||
| VDAFS | X | X | ||||
| VRML | X | X | X | X | ||
| XPS | X | X | X | |||
| Application | Import | Export | Import | Export | Import | Export |
The CATIA® V5-SOLIDWORKS Translator
is available with
SOLIDWORKS
Premium.