{"id":29387,"date":"2016-05-31T09:34:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T13:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/?p=29387"},"modified":"2016-05-31T09:35:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T13:35:39","slug":"recorded-webinar-spotlight-best-practices-moving-legacy-data-solidworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2016\/05\/recorded-webinar-spotlight-best-practices-moving-legacy-data-solidworks.html","title":{"rendered":"Recorded Webinar Spotlight: Best Practices for Moving Legacy Data to SOLIDWORKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a designer, you have probably been sent a 3D model with a file type different than what your design tool generally uses. Or you have to work with\u00a0an old model that was created in a different 3D CAD package. Either way, you most likely shook your head, mumbled to yourself, and got to work recreating the model from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>File compatibility is essential to today\u2019s technological workspace, and with the right tools at your fingertips, no model should be considered non-compatible. SOLIDWORKS, regardless of what software package you choose, provides you with capabilities to re-use your legacy data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why you should watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29386 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/legacy-data-webinar-blog-image-1.jpg\" alt=\"legacy-data-webinar-blog-image.jpg\" width=\"435\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/legacy-data-webinar-blog-image-1.jpg 435w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/legacy-data-webinar-blog-image-1-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/resources\/best-practices-moving-legacy-data-form.htm\" target=\"_blank\">22-minute webinar<\/a><\/strong>, you will learn how to import data and use editing techniques to help you make minor and major changes in a relatively short amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>This webinar will also provide you with best practices so you can lean how to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Convert common and uncommon file types, such as IGES, STEP, and many more<\/li>\n<li>Reverse engineer older models into full parametric models<\/li>\n<li>Re-use your rich data for other purposes<\/li>\n<li>Manipulate your converted models with direct editing features<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/resources\/best-practices-moving-legacy-data-form.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/edited_sw_rep_webinar_legacy_data_961x250_final.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a designer, you have probably been sent a 3D model with a file type different than what your design tool generally uses. Or you have to work with\u00a0an old model that was created in a different 3D CAD package.<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2016\/05\/recorded-webinar-spotlight-best-practices-moving-legacy-data-solidworks.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":29386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}