Import large Solidworks file to Creo Paramteric 6

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August 23, 2020
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Hi,

I’m having a lot of trouble importing some legacy data to Creo Parametric 6. We previously used Solidworks as our primary CAD tool and had some horrible modelling practices that lead to some very large assemblies that can’t easily be broken down for ease of importing. When we use the file > open > import option on the .sldasm files Creo becomes unresponsive with 0% cpu usage. I’ve left it running over the weekend on one file but it’s still not imported.
For comparison, I tried exporting the assembly in Solidworks as a STEP AP214 file and that imports reasonably quickly into Creo. However, that is not a sensible strategy for importing all of our legacy data, as Solidworks Task scheduler is too unreliable to mass export STEP files of all the required assemblies.

Does anyone have any advice for how to import large assemblies like this into Creo from Solidworks (some 2016 data and some 2007 data)?

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Mahesh_Sharma

22-Sapphire I

@Chris_Johnson

You may try importing the assembly instead of Open. With Unite technology you can directly open the data SolidWorks in Creo and as that is not working, Importing as legacy option may Help. It is available under File > Open > Select Pull down next to Open and pick Import.