Inserting a DXF File

You can insert a DXF or DWG file directly into the SOLIDWORKS document. The DXF file that you insert in this lesson contains the company logo for a fictitious company, Rainbow Corporation. The gasket file should still be open.

  1. Click Hidden Lines Removed .
  2. Click Front on the Heads-up View toolbar.
  3. In the graphics area, select the front face of the gasket.
  4. Click Insert > DXF/DWG.
  5. In the dialog box, browse to where you saved the tutorial sample files, select rainbow.dxf, then click Open.
  6. In the DXF/DWG Import dialog box, select Import to part as and 2D sketch, then click Next.
  7. In the DXF/DWG Import - Document Settings dialog box, clear Add constraints, to solve all apparent relations and constraints in the sketch, then click Next.
  8. In the DXF/DWG Import - Drawing Layer Mapping dialog box, select Merge points closer than and accept the distance of 0.001. This option merges points that, after import, are within a specified merge distance.
  9. Click Finish.
  10. Click Rebuild .
    A new sketch that contains the company logo is created in the part.