You can import and export these types of files, which are described in the topics. See also Importing and Exporting SolidWorks Documents.
3D XML
JPEG
ACIS®
Mechanical Desktop®
Adobe® Illustrator®
PADS® ASCII
Adobe Photoshop®
Parasolid® text and binary
Adobe Portable Document Format
Pro/ENGINEER®
Autodesk Inventor®
Rhino®
CADKEY®
ScanTo3D
CATIA® Graphics
Solid Edge®
DXF™/DWG files
STEP
DXF 3D
STL
SolidWorks® eDrawings®
TIFF™
Highly Compressed Graphics
U3D
HOOPS®
Unigraphics®
IDF 2.0, 3.0 (CircuitWorks Lite)
VDAFS
IDF 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 (CircuitWorks)
Viewpoint®
IGES
VRML
XPS
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