Need help importing SW 2003 into BCC v.24

[jjayharrison]

I am very green and would appreciate some direction. Thank You. I have solidworks 2003 and bobcad cam v. 24. I will draw a solid model in sw, and then attempt to open it in bcc v. 24. I get the solid model but I am unable to begin assigning tool paths and selecting geometry. When I select mill toolpath and then a profile, the profile edges are broken and I am unable to get the geometry assigned, or recognized. What am I doing wrong? Thank you for your help.

[Malish]

What kind of tool paths are you trying to create?

If you are doing 2Axis mill programs then you need regular line geometry, so you can do line-joins and pick the ends of the solid segments, and then add any arcs or fillets you want. Then when you do 2axis pocketing or profiling you select the lines/arcs as your geometry.

If you are doing 3axis then you can select your solid model directly as your geometry.

I have solidworks 2011 and BobCad V24, opening a .sldprt file in bobcad works fine for me.

[dingo0722]

Try one of these two things:

Open the SW file in BC then do a Save As. With out doing this and operations you do in BC will be erased becasue it is not a BC file yet

Save the SW file as a .STEP then open it in BC. With comlex geometry I find this works better than a native SW file. After opening it, do a save as like above