resullins Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Help. I've posted a file in this post. It's downloaded from one of our manufacturers, whom we have used files from in the past. There is supposedly geometry in the model space, but I can't find it. Don't judge me until you try this thing. The viewports are invisible, and I can't turn them on. I clicked inside a viewport to copy one of the blocks, when I go to paste it into a different drawing, there's nothing there. When I click inside the VP and try to explode the block, nothing happens. It doesn't tell me I can't explode the block. Just NOTHING HAPPENS. Seriously. I can't figure this out. Someone tell me I'm just missing something weird. Update: Too big to upload... here's the Dropbox link. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4eof7o70h3o0e2a/AAB2Rf7IV4nnLarG-LHxZPkha?dl=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resullins Posted July 1, 2015 Author Share Posted July 1, 2015 Also, just to add, a buddy of mine tried to open it, and it said something about Inventor, and he couldn't even open it (with the same AutoCAD 2015 that I used). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkent Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 I would guess someone used the viewbase command and called an inventor file for the command. You won't be able to do much with that file. Edit: Actually you can use the exportlayout command and have 2d geometry you can work with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza_au Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Here you go. https://www.dropbox.com/s/dmx9szgbrams5x2/AccessFit_V_case.dwg?dl=0 Gazza Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
profcad Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 It appears the drawing was created with Inventor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resullins Posted July 2, 2015 Author Share Posted July 2, 2015 Here you go. https://www.dropbox.com/s/dmx9szgbrams5x2/AccessFit_V_case.dwg?dl=0 Gazza Thank you! How did you do that? EXPORTLAYOUT? I've never tried that before. @Profcad, I'm sure you're right... but just out of curiosity, the image you posted, does it show that somewhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
profcad Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 In AutoCAD, it shows up on the Case Dimensions Layout. The image that I displayed earlier is from Inventor. The Inventor drawing can be exported as an Inventor DWG file or and AutoCAD DWG file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza_au Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 I looked at the website that was on your original drawing post and downloaded the dwg and saved it from a read only to 2007 dwg. Profcad is correct it's been created in Inventor and saved as an inventor dwg. Gazza Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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