The best way to import your .dwg files to SW? (Draftsight end of life free at the end of 2019)

Hello

There you go... before I quietly imported my files from Drafsight 2015 to SW, simply selecting my plans, copied and pasted on a sketch in SW.

I've never used too much direct import via SW... I had the impression that it didn't work too well... In addition, most of the time I had to change the scale.

And then one day... new PC... new problem... my Drafsight 2015 no longer works on W10... so installation of Drafsight 2019 SP1 but who doesn't do it anymore (?) ... and since it seems that it's soon the end of the free version, what should I go for...

Persist with direct import with SW? Use of another program to view and view my DWGs (DWGeditor allows it? c free,...) ... and so on...

I've already tried ZWcad... not great and trial version...

There you go... basically I need a good DWG viewer and that would allow me to do but copy-paste quickly well done :)

Thank you

Hello

Problem already mentioned on the forum with several solutions.

For my part I kept DWGEDITOR 2009 which was provided with SW for free and then replaced by Drafsight, the only problem is when a file is saved beyond 2009, so impossible to open it and so I go directly through SW.

For this reason also that I advise people to register their dwg in a 2000 version to be sure that everyone can open it.

Then there are the autodesk/autocad software accessible for free but only in the "leisure" context and below a certain turnover.

Hello

For my part, I work with the import into Solidworks directly.

File -> open, you select your DXF or DWG, import it as a new part (no drawing directly), 2D sketch if it's 2D or 3D curve or model if it's a 3D DWG (it works perfectly by the way)

So you have a room with your sketched plan, and if you want to change the scale in case the DWG was not at 1:1 scale (to take dimensions on the undimensioned parts for example) you create a block with the imported 2D plan, and then you have the scale option (see screenshot attached)

A+

 


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Hello

Personally, I replaced Drafsight with nanoCAD which is free ( ... for now). 

Have a good day to you

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Bjr, I just installed Nanocad but I'm afraid it will ask me to pay because I'm in demo mode.

After I still have problems... not possible to display my dwgs on SolidWorks 2016... Maybe the version of the .dwg is more recent?

So I tried to save with Nano in .dwg 2013 and then .dwg 2010... It's all messed up... I'm starting to hope.

warf... to despair!!!!     no reason to hope!

 

Julien.wunderle... it doesn't work.

Hello

Did you download this version (see image)?

I have no problem recording in .dwg 2013, now I don't understand.


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