shift1313 Posted February 19, 2009 Posted February 19, 2009 I have an issue. We had someone draw a part in inventor 10 and my boss wanted him to draw this, save it as a dwg so it could be used in Acad. At get go I thought this was trouble but the HELP said it can be done. Well none of the inventor copies we have(pro 10 and pro 11) will save as a dwg. they just dont have the file type as an option, even though the help document said they should. Has anyone run into this before? Quote
Cad64 Posted February 19, 2009 Posted February 19, 2009 This has been discussed before. Check this thread: http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=30307 Quote
shift1313 Posted February 19, 2009 Author Posted February 19, 2009 perfect, thanks cad. I had tried everything but the aec exchange. I was able to save it as an acis file but nothing ever opened. I guess my search wasnt very extensive. I put .ipt and .dwg in the search when i should have just left the . off. So as a recap for those that end up on this thread. Applications>AEC Exchange >save as dwg solids. Quote
shift1313 Posted February 19, 2009 Author Posted February 19, 2009 just as another note. i checked the tools>add-ins for inventor 10 and there is a dwg converter but i still dont have any options to export as a dwg in version 10. Quote
JD Mather Posted February 19, 2009 Posted February 19, 2009 ... options to export as a dwg in version 10. Save Copy As *.sat use acisin command in AutoCAD. Quote
shift1313 Posted February 19, 2009 Author Posted February 19, 2009 i did that jd and for some reason the file showed nothing in Acad. I could open that same file in Inventor or Solidworks but every time I tried it would just be a blank screen in acad. yes i did zoom extents and i tried selecting all so i know nothing was there. Quote
JD Mather Posted February 20, 2009 Posted February 20, 2009 i did that jd and for some reason the file showed nothing in Acad. I could open that same file in Inventor or Solidworks but every time I tried it would just be a blank screen in acad. yes i did zoom extents and i tried selecting all so i know nothing was there. What version of AutoCAD. Autodesk products will only read up to ACIS version 7. Older Autodesk products might not even read v7. When saving the *.sat file click Options and set to ACIS v7 or earlier. (I think current SWx defaults to ACIS v17 or 18). Autodesk used to use ACIS kernal by Spatial. But when Spatial was purchased by Dassault Systemmes (owner of SWx) things changed. Quote
shift1313 Posted February 20, 2009 Author Posted February 20, 2009 I was using acad 07, sw09 and inventor11pro. ill retry it with v7 and see what happens. thanks Quote
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