Importing Altium DXF to Solidworks Loss Of Details

[petersanch]

Hi,
I want to import a DXF from Altium into Solidworks.
The DXF looks right in the SW import preview but once imported in a sketch, then all of the details in the pads for the IC disappear.
Has some one seen this before? Any ideas on how to fix it?

Cheers

[HighVoltage]

Solidworks is sometimes very picky with DXF formats.
I usually open the DXF in AutoCAD and then save it again as DXF with different parameters until Solidworks accepts the DXF.

[petersanch]

Cheers! Unfortunately we don't have AutoCad. Is there another export format from Altium that could work better in Solidworks besides DXF?

[HighVoltage]

What version of Solidworks are you using?

If you don't have AutoCAD at hand, I would try a few online DXF editors and save the file new.
I am sure Solidworks will import it correctly with a few tweaks.

[free_electron]

DXF is the file format from hell ! it should be killed, including the program , and company responsable for creating it !
Some versions of autocad can't even read all the versions of DXF !

That being said : what you are seeing is the track losing its 'width' . a track in PCB world is a two coordinate pairs ( begin and end ) and a width.

So that nice oblong pad is converted into a stroke with a width. in dxf you get a zero width line with two circles. the radius of the circles is the width .

Use the solidworks connector. it's free brings all into solidworks directly. don;t use that intermediate crap DXf format.