Drawing import into Solidworks of .dxf

Discussion in 'SolidWorks' started by NeedHelp, Nov 11, 2005.

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    NeedHelp Guest

    I am converting Cadkey drawings to Solidworks. I have so far been able
    to get Cadkey to export into a .dxf that Solidworks can use. When I
    import into Solidworks though, all of the crazy colors of Cadkey comes
    along with it. Right now every entity is some color and I would much
    prefer black. The edit color option is not available so right now I
    have no means with which to turn off the painful yellows and reds.
    Thanks for any help.
     
    NeedHelp, Nov 11, 2005
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    Brian Guest

    Look on the lien format toolbar. There is a button for "color display
    mode". Toggling it may fix your issues.
     
    Brian, Nov 14, 2005
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    POH Guest

    Bob,

    BEFORE you export the Cadkey wireframe data via DXF why not change all
    the entities to black?

    The line format color change menu can be used in SolidWorks to alter
    selected entities; however, I think you'll find it faster to convert to
    black in Cadkey...

    Per O. Hoel
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    POH, Nov 15, 2005
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    cadcoke3 Guest

    Solidworks comes with the DWG editor program (A version of
    IntelliCAD). You can open your DXF file there, and make the changes in
    one operation. Just select everything, and use the properties to
    change to bylayer or color 7 (black/white)

    Joe Dunfee
     
    cadcoke3, Nov 16, 2005
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