Moving AutoCad 3-d to Inventor

Hi all,

I am fairly new to Inventor 2010. I am trying to transfer a 3-d autocad 2010 drawing into Inventor....but I am not sure how to do this. Please help!

File Open select file (but don't open yet) click Options and select the option to Import, now open. If you have trouble figuring it out post an example dwg here.

I tried that and it just crashed inventor.....any other suggestions? Here is a sample drawing.....

stand.dwg

Export as .sat in autocad and import .sat into invetor...

KC

Tried the .sat but it said that my drawing isn't a solid. How do i fix that?

If you convert the file into acad 2009 i can try to convert for you.

I have attached a drawing saved in 2007 format, thanks

stairs.zip

I tried that and it just crashed inventor.....any other suggestions? Here is a sample drawing.....

Your file opened fine on my machine. Is your OS 32-bit or 64-bit? Have you installed Service Packs 1 & 2? Are your templates in standard location (and Project path pointing to standard location) (no migrated templates from earlier release?)

Yep after a couple of tries the stand drawing worked, but the stair drawing I attached wont work. I am not sure why that is......please help!

the stair drawing I attached wont work.

In the AutoCAD file it says the stairs parts on not solids but something called reference blocks. I have never heard of reference blocks and not sure how to convert them to solids (I tried explode to get something to work with but that didn't work.) I'll check around to see if there is a method to get them to solids in AutoCAD.

Was able to convert to solid in AutoCAD then export as .sat in Inventor, however, it is a long convoluted process of xploding converting and re-exploding and finally was able to get a solid out of it.

really though it is probably easier just to re-draw the stair section in Inventor.

Anyway, I do have the .sat file but it's just over size limit for upload if you want it let me know.

KC