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From the main menu, select .
The Import Part dialog box appears.
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From the File Filter menu at the bottom of the
Import Part dialog box, select SOLIDWORKS
(*.sldprt*, *.sldasm*).
Abaqus/CAE lists all the files in the selected directory with a
.sldprt or .sldasm file extension.
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Select the SOLIDWORKS file containing
the part to import, and click OK.
Abaqus/CAE
displays the Create Part from
SOLIDWORKS File dialog box.
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Click the Name-Repair tab to set the following:
- Name
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When you import a part or parts into
Abaqus/CAE,
you can use the part names specified in the
SOLIDWORKS-format file or you can provide a
name for the imported part or parts. If you import multiple parts and provide a
part name,
Abaqus/CAE
uses your name and appends a number to it; for example, if you specify the part
name ImportedPart and create three individual parts, the
newly imported
Abaqus/CAE
parts will be named ImportedPart-1,
ImportedPart-2, and ImportedPart-3.
- Part
Filter
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A SOLIDWORKS file can contain more
than one part, and
Abaqus/CAE
imports all of the parts in the file by default. If you import all the parts in
the SOLIDWORKS file, you can create individual
Abaqus
parts for each of them or you can combine them together into a single
Abaqus
part; in addition, if you combine these parts,
Abaqus/CAE
enables you to stitch these imported parts together using a user-specified
stitching tolerance value.
If you want to import an individual part from the
SOLIDWORKS file, you can toggle on
Import part number and enter the number of a single part
to import from the file.
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Click the Part Attributes tab to set the
following:
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The modeling space of the part being imported. When you import a
part,
Abaqus/CAE
scans the file and tries to determine the modeling space.
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The type of the part being imported.
Abaqus/CAE
always assumes that the part type is deformable. Alternatively, you can select
Discrete rigid to import a discrete rigid part or select
Eulerian to import an Eulerian part. For more information,
see
Part types.
Again, in most cases you should accept the default settings; for more
information, see
What are the part attributes?.
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Click the Scale tab to scale the part during the
import process.
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Choose No scale to maintain the dimensions
stored in the file.
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Choose Use transform from file, including
scale to read the scale factor, the rotation matrix, and the
translation matrix from the SOLIDWORKS file.
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Choose Multiply all lengths by, and enter a
scale factor.
Abaqus/CAE
applies the scale factor to all of the coordinates in the file. As a
consequence, any offset from the origin will be scaled accordingly.
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Click OK to import the
SOLIDWORKS part and to close the
Create Part from SOLIDWORKS
File dialog box.
Abaqus/CAE
scans the SOLIDWORKS file and starts the
repair process, depending on the options selected. If you wish to cancel the
import process, click Stop in the prompt area.
When you import a single part,
Abaqus/CAE
displays a message indicating if the part contains any validity or precision
problems. If you import multiple parts from a single
SOLIDWORKS file, you can use the
Part Manager to check if any of the parts are invalid or
imprecise. If necessary, use the
Query toolset
to locate areas of invalid and imprecise geometry. For more information, see
Using the Query toolset in the Part module.
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