Interested in learning more tips and tricks you can apply to your own designs? Subscribe to our weekly Video Tech Tips to have them delivered straight to your inbox. Blog Index. Downloading the Autodesk Viewer Now you might not believe me if you have tried to open these types of files before like you would open any other file format.
Subscribe to receive email updates when we post new content. Thank you for your helpful insight. We run Inventor, Solidworks and Creo, as required by our clients. We do not try to move designs from one program to another, so my experience with this is low. Inventor will usually import Solidworks parts and assemblies in the release that was active at the time of the Invnetor release. Open and change models created in SolidWorks versions - Autodesk Inventor translates assembly and part files, solids, multi-solids, surfaces, and more.
After the import operation is complete, you have a base feature or features which match the geometry and topology of the original file. Use Autodesk Inventor commands to adjust the base features and add new features to the feature tree. As I understand it, your model tree for an imported Solidworks file will look exactly like an imported.
There won't be a feature history tree for the part files and there won't be any constraints between components in the assemblies. You will have to assign proper materials to your components to get accurate masses.
I am not sure that there will be any way to re-import changes in a file from one system to another without manual steps and re-work. Solidworks drawings will not be imported. I expect that you will have to use.
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Moving from 2D to 3D. Design Checker. Detailing and Drawings. Import and Export. Importing Documents. Importing Geometry. If the design is changing and you are not required to edit the referenced model, take control and improve performance by importing the design as a Reference Model. Envision an engineering environment in which a standard keyboard design was created as a surface model by an industrial designer using a different CAD program, such as Solidworks.
The Solidworks geometry is translated imported into Autodesk Inventor as a Reference Model into an assembly file. Importing the file as Reference Model establishes direct associativity between the Solidworks file and the Inventor file. Additional design enhancements are made to the original Inventor geometry using Autodesk Inventor modeling commands: A new part is placed into the assembly and constrained to the imported geometry. Meanwhile, the industrial designer continues to modify the Solidworks design into a more organic, ergonomic shape.
The Update icon on the Quick Access toolbar indicates that the original imported file was edited since it was initially imported into Inventor.
Now the Autodesk Inventor part file is no longer in sync. Clicking the Update icon loads the revised imported file and incorporates the changes. Depending on whether you import into a part or assembly file determines what type of modeling edits you can make:. If you do not need to import an entire model, you can specify which bodies into a part file or which parts into an assembly file to include.
Import only the components you need to improve performance. The Convert Model option creates new Inventor files which are not linked to the original. Use this option if you plan modify the model for a new design.
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