import a 3d dwg to part

[doobes]

Hey there,

I'm fairly VBA centric, but this one has me flummoxed.

I've got a butt load of old 3D dwg's that I got from KraftMaid years ago, which are cabinet models.

Way back yonder, I used SketchUp to design a kitchen, but I'm doing a new kitchen and want to use Swx.

I can't for the life of me figure out how to import a dwg into a part instead of a drawing or a sketch via the API.

I've got a nice macro for importing folders of step files and saving to SolidWork parts that I was leveraging for this, but SolidWorks is insistent on importing the dwg's either into drawings or sketches.

I can do this manually. I've tried recording a macro doing it and that's useless as running it again imports the dwg as a drawing.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

[SPerman]

While in the part, select a plane for the sketch to be placed upon, and select "insert", then "DXF/DWG"

[doobes]

Not what I'm trying to do.

You can open a dxf/dwg from the dialog as a part by selecting that option.

Can't figure out how to do that programmatically.

[SPerman]

Does this help at all? I know it isn't importing it the way you want, but it's a start. It's probably a matter of figuring out how to set the arguments.

https://help.solidworks.com/2017/englis ... ple_VB.htm

https://help.solidworks.com/2017/englis ... file4.html

https://help.solidworks.com/2017/englis ... gData.html

Looking through those links, it doesn't look like what you want is an option.

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[AlexB]

Does this help at all? I know it isn't importing it the way you want, but it's a start. It's probably a matter of figuring out how to set the arguments.

https://help.solidworks.com/2017/englis ... ple_VB.htm

https://help.solidworks.com/2017/englis ... file4.html

https://help.solidworks.com/2017/englis ... gData.html

Looking through those links, it doesn't look like what you want is an option.

image.png

I was going to suggest the same thing, but I tried it out and it puts all the entities into a sketch for any argument that applies to a part file. I'm not sure of a way to get it to convert the dxf into curve features.

[doobes]

Okay,

I've dug through the API doc's with limited/no success.

Here's what I'm trying to automate:

1) Open a dwg file:

2) Select the "import to new part as: 3D curves or model"

3) Choose the correct settings:

4) and Voila!, part:

If I do a macro record of this, which then looks like this:

Dim swApp As Object

Dim Part As Object
Dim boolstatus As Boolean
Dim longstatus As Long, longwarnings As Long

Sub main()

Set swApp = Application.SldWorks

boolstatus = swApp.LoadFile2("V:\Engineering\Mechanical\Models\KraftMaid\Office\CAD_DKD362D.dwg", "0 0")
Set Part = swApp.ActiveDoc
End Sub

This is the end result:

Definitely not what I'm looking for.

I've played around with this code:

Sub main()

Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks
Dim filename As String
Dim longerrors As Long
Dim retVal As Boolean

Dim importData As SldWorks.ImportDxfDwgData

filename = "V:\Engineering\Mechanical\Models\KraftMaid\Base Cabinets\CAD_BPPSFCC3627.dwg"
Set swApp = Application.SldWorks

Set importData = swApp.GetImportFileData(filename)
importData.ImportMethod("") = SwConst.swImportModelItemsFromEntireModel

Dim newDoc As SldWorks.ModelDoc2
Set newDoc = swApp.LoadFile4(filename, "r", importData, longerrors)

End Sub

The problem is there are about eleventy-seven options for the import method and the import data values.

I've tried a bunch of them with no success. Some do nothing at all, some open the file as a drawing.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

[doobes]

Wow, just wow. Just for fun, I went over to the SolidWorks user forum to see if I could find anything there.

That's friggen useless. No topic segregation so everything just get jammed together. The chances of finding anything are remote, and I suspect any message asking for assistance is going to get lost in the noise.

So, I filed a support request. That's 2 in 2 days! I'm on a roll....

[AlexLachance]

@josh might be of help. He's like THE reference in these type of things

Do you have an example model we could use to try it on our end..? Maybe your issue is version dependant..?

[doobes]

Can't attach a dwg, so it's here: https://www.dubea.com/CAD_DKD362D.dwg

Thanks

[doobes]

Mod's, would you please move this discussion to "API"?

I put this in the wrong place.

Thanks in advance