how do I piece together 2d drawings into inventor?

[SadisticIron]

Ok I have drawn in autocad 2009 my pieces I want to cut out and weld together but for visual purposes only and to see if I can use the testing of my part for strength i want to weld these three pieces together for a 3d image as well as strenght test if I can get that far. Can anyone help me in the right direction for this project of mine. It is not for school I am trying to teach myself this program and this site helped alot when I first started drawing. I have attached the pieces here to see if someone is willing to lend a hand.

 

tysonslowers_dxf.zip

 

All help is much appreciated guys. Thank you

[Pablo Ferral]

You can do this manually, but you could also look at this tool from Autodesk Labs:

http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/2d_to_3d_tool/

[JD Mather]

... I am trying to teach myself this program and this site helped alot when I first started drawing. I have attached the pieces here to see if someone is willing to lend a hand.

 

I recommend that if you want to learn Inventor than forget AutoCAD. Do all of the work in Inventor.

[ecshclark]

You can cut and paste each 2D Autocad profile onto a different sketch planes in Inventor. You could then use the geometry to build a model, or just leave it as a facsimile wireframe model. I do this all the time from vendor 2d drawings

 

[SadisticIron]

Thank you for all the help. I am going to research that lab link when I get home tonight. I started doing the copy paste last night but the problem I ran into was changing the angles to piece them all together. I was able to copy all pieces but when trying to piece it all together. It was all pasting parallel with each other. I really do appreciate all the help guys. Thanks much.

[JD Mather]

I ran into was changing the angles to piece them all together...

 

It is not clear to me what version of Inventor you have (you stated AutoCAD 2009).

If you have Inventor 2010 you could use Sketch Blocks, but if you goal is to learn Inventor (rather than simply get a part done ASAP) then I would start from scratch in Inventor rather than copy/paste. (might be faster anyhow)

Reproducing existing AutoCAD geometry in Inventor is an excelllent way to learn Inventor.

Then once you have learned the Inventor Way, you will have much more success re-using legacy data from AutoCAD in Inventor when necessary.

[SadisticIron]

I am using inventor 2011. Thank you JD for all the information.