Transferring Material Properties from Solid Edge to SolidWorks for Assemblies

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Hello everyone,

I’m currently facing a challenge regarding data transfer between Solid Edge and SolidWorks, and I’d greatly appreciate any insights or best practices from the community.

  • My Goal: I need to transfer an assembly from Solid Edge to SolidWorks. The geometry itself is not the main issue.

  • The Core Problem: My primary concern is the material properties. Each of these parts has a specific material assigned in Solid Edge. When importing the assembly into SolidWorks, these material assignments are lost.

My Questions to the Community:

  • Has anyone successfully tackled this specific problem for assemblies?

  • Are there any built-in functionalities or tools, that can facilitate the transfer of material properties directly or semi-automatically?

  • Are there any alternative workflows I might be overlooking that could streamline this process?

Any advice, experience you can offer would be incredibly helpful. Thank you in advance for your time and expertise!

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Is this an entire dataset migrating from SE to SW or just one assembly, modeled by someone else and you’re importing it to SW once?

I’m not aware of any off the shelf material mapper, although it would be fairly straight forward thing to automate I don’t think it would be worth writing the tool for one off import.

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Apparently, there is a tool that can do the SE → SWX material mapping on migration,

but the license price for it is kind of steep ($4digits).

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4 digits? Meaning less than 10k? That’s not bad. Compare that to your cost to do it manually, and (unless you want to expose your data to a low labor cost country and/or trust their accuracy) it may pay for itself quicker than you expect.

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Does any property, custom property got transfer to SW?

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Here are the prices: https://www.atrsoft.com/customtools/pricing/

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  1. SE macro that writes material info to the file (csv, txt, what ever) with filename
  2. transfer files to SW
  3. “search and replace” SE material with desired SW material in file
  4. SW macro to read material info from the file and add it to model as a batch run
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Today, it’s just for one or two large assemblies. Maybe things will evolve in the future, so I was just looking for a built-in solution or a simple tool to do the job, but it seems there isn’t one. Developing a macro might be a good option I’ll recheck it in the future. Thank everyone for your help.