CAD Import and Export Overview
SOLIDWORKS provides more than 30 translators to convert incoming CAD data into SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD format or to export SOLIDWORKS data to other CAD products.
Import and export in multiple data formats:
| 3D XML | IFC |
| 3DS | IGES |
| 3MF | JPG |
| ACIS | OBJ |
| Adobe® Illustrator® | Parasolid® |
| AMF | ProEngineer® |
| PRC | Adobe Photoshop® |
| PSD (Adobe Photoshop) | |
| Autodesk Inventor® | Rhino |
| Autodsk Mechanical Desktop® | SAT (ACIS®) |
| CADKEY® | Solid Edge® |
| CATIA® Graphics | STEP |
| CGR (CATIA graphics) | STL |
| DWG™ | TIFF |
| DXF™ | Unigraphics® |
| HCG (CATIA highly compressed graphics) | VDA-FS |
| HSF (Hoops) | VRML |
| IDF |
Also available:
- Optional CATIA V5 Import
- Import and export ECAD formats: IDF, ProStep* (IDX), PADS* (ASC)
- Import and export AEC formats: IFC formats