Adjusting your ISO orientation for SOLIDWORKS

In the past it was necessary to build your SOLIDWORKS Assembly in an unorthodox view orientation so that your Single Line Isometric Drawings (ISOGEN) would be in the correct orientation. Well a couple of releases back we have resurrected that situation. There is now more options for you to freely control the output of you ISO drawings without doing anything more than choosing a different option from the Smap3D Isometric settings menu. Let’s look at exactly where this setting is.

Go to Start, All Programs, CAD Partner, Smap3D Plant Design, and click on Isometric.

 

With Smap3D Isometric open you now have access to open the options, which is in the Tools pull-down menu.

Open ISO options

From here you have access to change the “Up/North direction”. Notice all of the options that are available now.

New available direction settings

Below you will see the preferred setting for use with SOLIDWORKS.

Correct setting for SolidWorks

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Conversion of Smap3D standard and repetition parts for SOLIDWORKS 2015

In SOLIDWORKS 2015, there is a breaking change causing 3rd party data loss when saving a document with SOLIDWORKS 2015.
Smap3D applications use this 3rd party data storage streams to hold some information.

Therefore it is important and inevitable to perform the Smap3D parts conversion with the Smap3D SOLIDWORKS 2015 conversion tool to save Smap3D data storage (standard and repetition parts) before starting to work with Smap3D parts in SOLIDWORKS 2015 or its future versions.

In this PDF document the workflow is described step by step:
Conversion of Smap3D parts for SolidWorks 2015

Video instruction:
Video guide to converter tool for SolidWorks 2015

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Konvertieren von Smap3D Norm- und Wiederholteilen für SOLIDWORKS 2015

Mit SOLIDWORKS 2015 wurde eine grundlegende Änderung in der SOLIDWORKS Dateistruktur vorgenommen.
Diese verursacht, dass Informationen von Drittanbietern in den Dateien verloren gehen, sobald man diese mit SOLIDWORKS 2015 speichert.
Die Smap3D Plant Design Anwendungen nutzten bisher diese Speicherstruktur für Drittanbieter, um für Smap3D Plant Design notwendige Informationen bereitzustellen. Weiterlesen →

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