I am currently building an RC speedboat. I made the hull from fiberglass in a mold. I want to make the boat deck with the 3D printer. I have measured the top edge of the hull precisely and reconstructed it exactly in Solidworks Desktop. I used the loft command to create a body from the various cross-section profiles. I designed the cabin in xShape and then exported it from xShape as a STEP file. I imported the STEP file into a new Solidworks part file. I noticed that the coordinate system of Solidworks Desktop (Y-axis pointing upwards) does not match the coordinate system of xShape (Z-axis pointing upwards). After many attempts and a few YouTube videos, I realized that this is really the case and that you simply have to rotate the imported xShape parts in Solidworks using the move/copy command. After I had overcome that issue I imported the cabin part file into the deck part file and used the combine command to merge both bodies.

There are countless Solidworks desktop videos on YouTube covering all aspects of construction. Unfortunately, there are only relatively few videos on the browser-based programs xShape and xDesign in which mostly only xShape or xDesign is used. The combination of parts created in xShape and Solidworks Desktop is not shown completely in any video I know of. The fact that the coordinate system does not match is also not described anywhere.

If someone from the Dassault / Solidworks team is reading this text: I would like to see a tutorial video explaining step by step how to bring parts from the xApp-3D-Experiance environment into the Soldidworks Desktop environment in a part file to later combine the bodies. Perhaps I have not seen the relevant passages in the user manual, in which case I would be glad if someone could give me a tip.

Below are the pictures showing the finished boat deck with cabin and the cut-out for access to the boat interior, the flat boat deck designed in Solidworks and the cabin designed in xShape.