garycrampton Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 Inventor Suite 2009 eventually upgrading to 2010. Running Windows XP. I have v. large Step files, mostly generated from ProE files, that I would like to save as an Inventor part. What is the sequence of instructions to make a Step file into an Inventor Part? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shift1313 Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 you can open step files with inventor. no special steps needed. You may need to go to the menu at the top..... Tools>add-ins then make sure the autodesk STEP translator is loaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garycrampton Posted August 18, 2009 Author Share Posted August 18, 2009 No problem opening the step files, but i need to use them in an inventor assembly. The ideal solution (if it is ideal) is to save the step file as an Inventor part. Then I can add it to my Inventor assembly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkFlayler Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Click Options before you open the file and you can set special considerations such as "Import Assembly as Single Part". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garycrampton Posted August 18, 2009 Author Share Posted August 18, 2009 Soon as I 'hit' options, it has 'greyed out'. At the moment tried opening up a Step file and I dont get the full 3D model, practically nothing. I'm heading towards a possible software glitch/re-install. What does anyone think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shift1313 Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 before you click options have you already selected the file and has it shown up in the file name box? The parts will come in as dumb solids(your model tree will just list them as base with no feature recognition) but they will come in fine. it could be an issue with the step file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garycrampton Posted August 20, 2009 Author Share Posted August 20, 2009 I'm going to try on my PC and another. I'll let you know what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hickoz_bro Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 Post up a sample file for us to try? We do lots of step translations at work, but haven't had the issue you describe... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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