Hello! Our team wanted to do some cad in the off-season using Solidworks and we wanted to use the cad models that exist for swerve drive, however, it is only provided with STEP files or .x_t files so I was wondering if anyone had Solidworks models for the SDS swerve drives? (ideally a non-inverted one but either one would be appreciated)
1 Like
Those are both interchange formats supported by Solidworks.
1 Like
yeah I know they do work in solidworks however I was hoping someone had a conversion to make it easier to edit features
if you download the parasolid that is about as close to a solidworks model as you will get
If you ABSOLUTELY want a moving SDS module in Solidworks, you could open the STEP file, break the link (shown below) and save each unique part and make an assembly. It’s a lot of extra work, but you COULD do it.
For your own sanity, it’s not worth it…
I believe you don’t even need to save out the parts from the original file - the parts can be stored inside the assembly file for convenience.
If you want to import the model, I recommend using the Parasolid (.x_t) format in SOLIDWORKS since SOLIDWORKS uses the Parasolid kernel and will have an easier time importing it.
This topic was automatically closed 365 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.