Solidworks 2017 working with an stl file how to#
Solidworks 2017 working with an stl file install#
Solidworks 2017 working with an stl file update#

Solidworks 2017 working with an stl file how to#

Proceed to the tutorials for instructions on how to use the exporter.STL is the standard file type used by most additive manufacturing systems. The exporter has two separate forms, one for exporting single SW parts as a single link and the second for exporting assemblies as a set of links and joints. If this setup file doesn't work try installing manually as described below. When SolidWorks is open, under 'Tools>Add-ins' you will see a SW2URDF item at the very bottom. Otherwise, to just use the tool, you can start SW normally. After doing this once, you only need to run from Visual Studio to re-compile. It will compile and run SolidWorks together. To do this, right click on Visual C# in your start menu and click, 'run as administrator'.Д¬lick on 'Debug>Start Debugging' or press F5. Your Windows account needs to have these privileges to register the. To build the source, you'll need to download Visual Studio Community. If you need a stable version of the source, check-out the revision tied to the installer. Because this is checked in regularly, there may be bugs or un-finished code in the source files. These are the most up-to-date source files. If this setup file doesn't work, try installing manually as described below. Open SolidWorks, under 'Tools>Add-ins' you will see a SW2URDF item at the very bottom.

Solidworks 2017 working with an stl file install#

It should install into the SolidWorks directory in program files. Your Windows account will need to have sufficient privileges to make these changes. It will ask for permission to make changes to your computer. NET Framework V4.7.2 if you don't have it already. This installs the most current stable release.

If anyone has some suggestion as to why, I'd love to know. For some reason, Windows struggles to find the supporting plug-ins, and will throw an unhandled exception error. This sounds made up, but you cannot install the files into a directory labeled 'SW2URDF'. The download is available as a pre-compiled installer or as source as a Visual Studio C# project. Use Github'sДetails of bug fixes and new features are put in the Change Log. The code has been migrated to Github from its original BitBucket page.

If you don't find your answer, please submit a question with the tag 'sw_urdf_exporter'. If you have questions about the SolidWorks to URDF Exporter after reading this documentation please check ROS Answers for possible answers. To learn more about URDF, please review its documentation. The add-in makes use of the most up-to-date SW API so it may not work with versions earlier than SolidWorks 2018 (but this hasn't been confirmed). It currently does not install on 32bit machines. This add-in has been tested on Windows 10 64bit with SolidWorks 2018 SP 5 64bit. The URDF will include rospack URI file locations ('package://'), so you will need to change those for non-ROS systems (some Gazebo systems can handle 'package' URIs). This project is not dependent on ROS and can be used for exporting SolidWorks files for any URDF needs. We also appreciate any bugs or feature requests so that we can work on them when the resources become available. Without this support or from pull requests from communities members, development would not be able to continue. 2017 and below may also workДevelopment on this plugin as of recently has come from the generous donations of several ROS community members.

Solidworks 2017 working with an stl file update#

If you are using 2018, please update to service pack 5 or use SolidWorks 2019 or later. There is a known STL export bug with SolidWorks 2018 that exists up to Service Pack 4 that renders this add-in unusable.