Is there any way to import solidworks files into unity as assets?

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Persistence picture Persistence · Oct 27, 2015 · Viewed 20.2k times · Source

I'm attempting to program a simple chess game using the unity game engine. However, I can't work out how to import the assets that I've created in Solidworks into Unity.

Is it possible to do?

Answer

rutter picture rutter · Oct 27, 2015

SolidWorks files tend to describe parametric geometry, such as NURBs, but most game engines prefer to work with raw polygons.

Unity has direct support for the following model formats: FBX, OBJ, DAE, 3DS.

SolidWorks can export to STL format, which other programs should be able to convert to OBJ, DAE, and/or FBX. Recommending a specific tool is beyond the scope of Stack Overflow, but I know that such tools exist. I recommend searching terms such as "stl to obj conversion".

These sorts of headaches are fairly common with 3D assets, since so many programs use customized file formats.

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