XREFS INVENTOR

Jetsetter · Apr 20, 2010

I am thinking about purchasing Inventor but i have a question. a company that I do some engineering work for, uses autocad 2009 as their 3d package and drafting. They just started making the solid models xrefs. Can I model in Inventor and save them as acad2009 xrefs for submittal to them. Thanks

Jetsetter · Apr 20, 2010

Never mind I guess all that an x-ref is in acad is an external acad file. so as long as the inventor models can be saved as a 2009 or prior, then i shouldnt have no problem.

EngAddict · Apr 20, 2010

Inventor files can't be saved back but the DWG export can.

Jetsetter · Apr 21, 2010

Thanks, since I havent used Inventor, the question is inventor solids can be exported with a .DWG extension and they can be used in Autocad 2009 corrrect?

rollupswx · Apr 21, 2010

You can save the files in dwg directl from Inventor to whatever dwg format you need.

AEC Exchange > Save as DWG Solids

You can also Save Copy As ACIS (*.sat) which AutoCAD will open using the acisin command.

You are correct in that xref is simply one dwg referrenced in another dwg file.

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

XREFS INVENTOR

Jetsetter

Aerospace

Recommended for you

Jetsetter

Aerospace

EngAddict

Mechanical

Jetsetter

Aerospace

rollupswx

Mechanical

Similar threads

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor