How do you make Solidworks files into files that are editable in Illustrator?

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I'm trying to get Solidworks files into a format that makes them editable in Illustrator. The engineers I work with design all of our machines in Solidworks, and I'd like to create graphics in Illustrator from images of those designs.

Back in the day, I worked with engineers who used AutoCAD or ProE, and they could export view/images to pdf format, and then I could open them as .eps files. EPS files were editiable in Adobe Illustrator.

But these days, no one seems to have heard of .eps files :-).

Any advice? Much appreciated.

Mylenium · Answer

EPS is dead, but I don't see the problem. Haven't looked at SW in a while, but it used to produce usable DWG files, DXF and even SVG. Not sure what more you would need. The rest works the same. You create a new view and plot it/ flatten it.

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