Inventor Drawing .DWG outputs broken files

[Johnnyjack777]

The basic save, when making an inventor drawing....

Produces a file that is a Black Panel, to Every other program than inventor... (Tried 5 so far, some just fail to open)

REALLY basic thing that is failing... is it really a proprietary file they "called" .dwg?

Or is there some setting I have on?

Either way, thanks for your time,

-Johnny

Best way to show this is open this file in Solidworks.

[jeffrey.sun · Accepted solution]

I tried your attached dwg with AutoCAD 2012, AutoCAD Mechanical 2012 and DWG TrueView 2012. The two views can be shown correctly.

Which programs have you tried?

[Johnnyjack777]

Irritating... you have to Save as.... save as COPY.... to get the correct formats... they are NOT in export.

I tried Solidworks, Partworks, alibre/libre? Coreldraw.... pretty much all Non-Autodesk products (Whatever was on the computer I was using ; )

(Also, Come-On!  DWG true view is included WITH inventor, and Audocad/Autocad mechanical are basically the same program too...  Yes inventor opens the file inventor created 🙂

[jeffrey.sun]

Have you tried to save copy as "AutoCAD DWG File (*dwg)"?

Note: The result dwg of the types "AutoCAD DWG File (*dwg)" and "Inventor Drawing File (*.dwg)" are different. In the Save Copy As dialog, the two types are both listed in the "Save as type" combobox.