You or your systems administrator will need to install a registry file to make this work. Enabling 3D Interconnect in SOLIDWORKS is easy, but if you don’t have a full license and you are using the SOLIDWORKS Translator that comes with Composer there is a hurdle. Now, if we can import these custom properties into SOLIDWORKS we can get them into Composer. Reference axes from CATIA® V5 files only.Unconsumed sketches (not consumed by any feature) and curves.To overwrite custom properties, you must break the link to the native CAD file. Material properties (material name and density attributes).Custom properties (ACIS, Autodesk® Inventor, CATIA® V5, IGES, PTC® Creo, Solid Edge®, STEP, UG).Assembly cut features (from PTC® Creo and UG files).With SOLIDWORKS 2018 the tool was enhanced further to include the following things, the third being the most important to us in this situation: Not going too far off topic, but it gave SOLIDWORKS users the ability to open CAD data from other packages without converting the data into a SOLIDWORKS format. But, in SOLIDWORKS 2017 a new feature released called 3D Interconnect. Straight out of the box, on file open, SOLIDWORKS does not import custom properties, aka metadata. Now let’s look at what SOLIDWORKS can do for us.
It gets installed with the SOLIDWORKS installation manager, check it out the next time you install Composer. I know you are not using SOLIDWORKS, you’re using SOLIDWORKS Composer! When importing your data into Composer, even though you may not own a SOLIDWORKS license, a SOLIDWORKS Translator with no UI is doing the heavy lifting for you and converting the data. To most people this would be the “ok, there is your answer moment.” Nope let’s keep going, the big clue is SOLIDWORKS files here. The picture below shows only 3dXML, SOLIDWORKS files, and U3D files. This gave us a full list of what can be imported from each of the supported 3d file formats. But on that same help page, we get a link to SWXImportOptions.pdf which is found in you Composer install directory under helpENUCpsUserExamples. So first off, I went to the help file in Composer and typed in “Import” into the search and it gives us a list of Supported 3d Import Formats, it doesn’t give a list of things it imports. As a word before we start I have only tested AutoDesk Inventor data with this method.
I don’t like to shy away from a challenge, so I rolled up my sleeves and went to work, and please forgive my Star Wars title puns. “Where are the custom properties? We don’t want to manually type in all this information if the designers have already done so in CAD, whatever it may be.” Over the years I’ve spent time with some of our SOLIDWORKS Composer customers that don’t use SOLIDWORKS as their primary CAD tool, and a prevailing question kept coming up.
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