Autocad drawing to inventor

[Crompton]

To All
New to this forum.

Tried to find help on this but not found specific.

I am a bit outdated here, Autocad 2002 and Inventor 7.

I have drawn a series of drawings in Autocad of a machine.
I now want to put it into Inventor to make it work.

Sounds easy...

is it?

I have tried to open drawings into Inventor, some open some dont.
They are a drawings of a componants not an assembly of parts.
I cannot edit them in inventor,
I try to constrain the parts together some parts ie this fits in this hole works.
But try to mate two surfaces together they touch but not flat. If you get my drift.

then i try to save it..... FORGET IT....
some parts come up with wierd well to me error messages like "cannot deep copy entity".

So am I flogging a dead machine?

I know why some might ask why I am using old software but it was what work was throwing out as we dont use it.

Quite versed up on Autocad but new to Inventor.

Hope someone can help.

Cheer in advance
David

[JD Mather]

I have tried to open drawings into Inventor, some open some dont.
They are a drawings of a componants not an assembly of parts.

I'm confused about what sort of data you have to work with. In Inventor we normally refer to solid 3D models as parts and 2D orthographic projections as drawings.

Are you trying to use drawings as sketches or do you have 3D solids. If you have 3D solids how did you get them into Inventor 7?

Can you attach some sample files?

[Crompton]

ok will try to attach some PARTS.

sorry for my miswording of drawings and parts.

First
"cam lever" i cannot get this to open properly and save in inventor.

when you get to "CAM LEVER 630 0591.ipt" screen there is nothing.
Right click on part in model window select edit, it shows up.
When try to save get error message cannot save in solid mode select ok.
Then error window pops up with
[WARNING] CAM LEVER 630 0591.ipt: Errors occurred during update <DcKernelRes(213)> [r:\core\rd\Main\Component.cpp, line 517]
[ERROR] Attempt to deep copy an unsupported entity. <ASM(35019)> [r:\core\mi\helpers.cpp, line 623]

[WARNING] CAM LEVER 630 0591.ipt: Errors occurred during update <DcKernelRes(213)> [r:\core\rd\Main\Component.cpp, line 517]
[ERROR] Attempt to deep copy an unsupported entity. <ASM(35019)> [r:\core\mi\helpers.cpp, line 623]

well it shows as two lines.


So i accept and just close winow as do not how to navigate this problem.
just realised that file too big to include on here as attachment 260kb. shucks.

Second
I want to constrain the support and slide together ( there is a wedge not included) as you can see the slide should butt up against right side of support but cannot get it to fit properly. It is in mid air not butted up against it.
see jpg.

hope you can help.

Thanks

[JD Mather]

just realised that file too big to include on here as attachment 260kb.

You can reduce the file size by right clicking on the filename in Windows Explorer and selecting Send to Compressed (zipped) Folder and attach the resulting *.zip here. You can make an ipt file even smaller by dragging the red End of Part marker to the top of the browser history tree before saving and zipping.

You will want two Mate Constraints on those parts. Select the Constraint tool and leave it on the default and select the top of the slide on the Support and the resting face on the underside of the Slide. Apply. Then select the angled face of the dovetail on the Support and the logical mating angled face of the Slide. OK. You should then be able to click and drag the Slide to test the motion.

I am not a big fan of re-using AutoCAD geometry. I would suggest going through the Inventor tutorials and learn how to use Inventor before migrating AutoCAD parts to Inventor.

In the attached right click on the folder and select extract. Then open the Support.ipt and pull down the End of Part (EOP) marker. Open the Slide and pull down the EOP. Open the Assembly.iam and click and drag the Slide. Of course you should delete this folder as I did this in EDU version - see if you can reproduce with your own files.

[Crompton]

I try to open files in inventor i get the following message

Database schema is newer than this version of the software

I presume you saved in new version of Inventor i got version 7

[JD Mather]

I forgot you were using Inventor 7.