Any common formats between
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SketchUp Pro and Solid Works? I've been teaching myself some basics with the free version of sketch till the man with Solid Works gets back from vacation. Wondered if there were any formats to move saves between the two.
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Here is the comparison table of the Pro and Free versions (see the export formats):
http://sketchup.google.com/product/whygopro.htmlYou can find out which file type you could use in SW.
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You might be able to export solidworks->SU but you certainly wont be able to get anything usable from SU->solidowrks.
This is because SU is a poly modeller and so only approximates surfaces, whereas solidworks is a solid modeller and uses maths to describe its surfaces. With regards to exporting and importing, it is pretty easy to approximate a mathematical surface as polygons (i.e. exporting from solidworks to SU) but near impossible to go from the approximation to exact mathematical solids (i.e. exporting from SU to solidworks.)
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