Topic: Solid Edge & ACAD

[CottageCGirl]

Dose anyone have any experience bringing Solid Edge drawings (as blocks) into ACAD?

[Birdy]

(SE v19):In the SE .dft file, do a saveas, and pick the options button.  This plows you thru a whole bunch of steps to save the .ini file.  I really aint too hip on SE, and ran into a few snags.  I did a quickie save of the ini file to my desktop (wouldn't let me overwrite the original), and then just inserted the (converted) dwg file as a normal block.  I'd suggest ditching the tiltleblock (if present) first in SE.  I can't seem to get rid of it in ACAD.

But then, I'm a total noob w/SE.

[mjfarrell]

A quick search turned up this http://www.brothersoft.com/dwg-import-for-solid-edge-download-103661.html perhaps it is a good thing?

Perhaps this is the other direction? http://www.sycode.com/products/dxf_import_se/index.htm

[CottageCGirl]

Thanks Guys ...all the links are blocked, so I will have to check them out at home....just thought I would play around a bit......

[Birdy]

I'd suggest ditching the tiltleblock (if present) first in SE.  I can't seem to get rid of it in ACAD.

But then, I'm a total noob w/SE.

DOH, comes in as nested blocks.  Explode, delete the Titleblock stuff, and the drawing (model) remains a block.

I'm assuming of course, you want to insert the SE draft view into autocad, rather than the assembly or part model.
For that, you'd have to save the model as an ACIS file (*.sat) and in acad, use ACISIN command.  Which wouldn't work for me.