jmatus86 Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 I recently completed a 3d drawing using autocad2005. The engineer is using Solidworks and asked me to save the drawing as a "step" file and an "inventor" file. Can anyone help shed some light? A.s.a.p. would be much appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Secretagdan Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 I have very little experiance with Inventor, but can't you just open/inport the drawing in Inventor and save it as the required file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 SolidWorks will read ACIS (*.sat) file. In AutoCAD issue the acisout command and follow the instructions on command line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hickoz_bro Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 For what it's worth Solidworks will read the STEP (command: STEPOUT) and IGES (command: IGESOUT) files just as well. There are differences, but if it's just geometry you're after (not metadata, materials, styles etc) then just pick any... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 For what it's worth Solidworks will read the STEP (command: STEPOUT) and IGES (command: IGESOUT) files just as well. There are differences, but if it's just geometry you're after (not metadata, materials, styles etc) then just pick any... But all of that doesn't matter to the OP running vanilla AutoCAD 2005 as AutoCAD 2005 doesn't have a step or iges translator. There is no stepout or iges out in that version. Would need 2012 or free Inventor Fusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hickoz_bro Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 Ahh... No worries, I was using MechDesktop back in 2005, it had IGESOUT and STEPOUT... I assumed they were available from the base package... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted May 16, 2011 Share Posted May 16, 2011 Considering the question is 1 1/2 years old, I hope the OP has solved this by now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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