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Importing into SolidWorks

So, let's import this into SolidWorks and see what we get. What would we like to get? Something like a multi-layer sandwidth: Each Gerber conductor layer on its own Z-level in SolidWorks with a given thickness. Between each conductor layer a solid body representing the FR4. Drill holes running through the entire assembly like toothpicks holding the whole thing together.

Importing

We are going to import into a SolidWorks part. We will start by just importing the top layer. We import it as a new part and the data as a 2D Sketch. here is what it looks like as it first comes in:

You can see that our circuit traces have lost their width but the solids for the square pads are OK. To convert this to a part, we have to selected the closed regions (i.e. the pads) and extrude them along Z. The actual thickness is about 0.0014 inch (assuming 1 oz.copper) but we will use 0.004 inch so that we can actually see something in 3D.

In order to extrude this, I had to first delete the sketch lines for the traces (as they don't form a closed body they can't be there), select the rest of the 2D sketch lines and then use the extude/boss function to extrude by 0.004 inch in the Z direction. I also set the material to copper which gives the data its brownish color.

I can now save this as a 'part' we'll call TOP_LAYER.SLDPRT

So you can see that to import just one layer requires several manual steps and we have yet to be able to import the traces.

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