ProE to SolidWorks file import

I am looking for users that have had experience bringing in ProE files
into SolidWorks (not Wildfire). I am interested to know if the files
come in cleanly and with parametrics. I am a sales rep for a
SolidWorks Reseller. We have not had much access to ProE files to try
this ourselves. If anyone is comfortable commenting on this for me, I
would appreciate it. Good or not so good comments welcome.
Thank you in advance.

 

I have recently imported some ProE files and they seem to com in pretty
clean.....there was few though which looked weired...but we tracked it down
to be files once exported from SW as igs to ProE and now brought back again.
One thing I miss is to have some kind of mates along with with the parts
when I import an assy from ProE. I'm not sure about what You mean with
parametrics...as far as I know none of the files had any incontext
relations....and You can't open any ProE drawings in SW but You'll get the
features in the parts.
You can try to download files from http://www.boschrexroth.com ...browse to
cad files and i think You'll find a lot of ProE files to download and play
with.

Krister L

 

So far, I have not had very good results importing a Pro-E file and trying
to regenerate features. I get a lot of cherries.

I have done this though. If there are not that many cherries, I will import
it a second time without features just so I can see what the model is
supposed to look like properly. Then I may edit some of those cherries in
the first import to make it correct. If there are a lot of cherries
though.... forget it.

 

work with alot of pro-e files and SW2005 does a pretty good job on them.
They are complicated plastic parts with a flair towards industrial design/
consumer items. Yes you will get some features but i wouldnt count on all of
them ever coming through, plus the more complicated the surface the more
likely the feature will not show up on the tree except as a surface.