Inventor import

[Corby]

Can I import an Autodesk Inventor Assembly into Catia?.

Thanks in advance

 

[DBezaire]

Directly - probably not, what are your output choices? If you have the Step option you can input an assembly.
Some iges translators also accept assembly format.

Regards,
Derek

 

[Corby]

A yes STEP we have Step and I can save the assembly to STEP, what is step I have never used that 1

 

[DBezaire]

Step is a translator, you can output solids & assemblies.
There are different options in step, check for the options coming out of inventor. You will want to keep the file in assembly format.

Regards,
Derek

 

[solid7]

AP214 is also a much better format than AP203, (both are STEP variants) as it will retain more of your original information. Information pertaining to things like layers, part names, and whatnot.

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[Corby]

Thank you DBezaire and Solid7, I have had a result and was thanked by out customer for reeciving the model, I save the inventor file as a STEP and it imported into Catia with no problems. Cheers