SOLIDWORKS to AUTOCAD basemap

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Hello everyone, here I am again today with a new request:D

So there you have it, I'm in charge of developing a semblance of a "design office" (in quotation marks of course because the requests are not too technical)

We do lifting with mobile cranes and some customers ask us for elevation plans + machine layout plans on DWG provided by their services.
I work with 3 softwares: Solidworks (I created and assigned functions to all the elements for the elevation plans) Autocad (reading the dwg + crane locations on their plans) and likaplan (a manufacturer software to study the realization of our lifts with each crane of the manufacturer, which allows me to enter in a nice cartridge created on SW all the practical data of the machine)

 

The problem of the day is the following: is it possible to import a solidworks basemap into autocad in order to avoid retyping all the machine data in another basemap on autocad?
 

Thanking you in advance, you will surely find me today in another post ... (I'm training a little on the job and my meagre knowledge of CAD dates back to high school...:D)

Good night

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I don't really understand the need.

If you made the plan in SW, it is quite possible to export it to Autocad (file/save as).
Since this is a recurring need, you will benefit from creating a configuration file (assigning entities to a layer, etc.) but the SW module is quite explicit to do so.

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 @stefbeno

Hello, the goal is not to export a plan but simply the cartridge with the data, because I have to output (in 80% of the time) an elevation plan (made with a SW assembly) and a layout plan (from a dwg provided by the customer) both with the same data in the cartridge, hence the interest in exporting just the basemap (I made an A3 basemap template on SW that I fill with the required data)

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Hello

As stefbeno says, there's no reason why a simple /dwg save from SW shouldn't do the trick.

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Hello @FUZ3D that was right, thank you

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Another option is to import the client dwg into a SW part (even if it's just a sketch) and do everything in SW, even if it means making a dwg in the end for customer delivery.

It will save you from having to juggle with 2 softwares, which is already not easy when you master the said software

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 @stefbeno
This would be the solution but the dwg files provided by the customers are plans with a lot of entities (streets, existing or future buildings, gas networks etc) SW gets confused at the time of import (unless I don't do it the right way?)

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If the customer file is well done with layers for the streets buildings..... when or open the dwg under SW you can choose which layers to open  or not

 

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