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Reading Solidworks 2012 files into Inventor

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sdeboer
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Reading Solidworks 2012 files into Inventor

We are using Inventor 2012 and would like to read Solidworks 2012 files directly into the system. This can be done with Solidworks 2011 files but our vendor upgraded his software between the time he sent us test files to try  the import and now. Can you tell me if the is a plug in or something that will allow us to read SW 2012 files or should we upgrade to Inventor 2013?

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JDMather
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SolidWorks 2012 was released after Inventor 2012.  You will need a later version of Inventor, perhaps free Inventor Fusion 2013.

http://labs.autodesk.com

 


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If I'm not mistaken, if you have the latest Service Pack loaded for Inventor 2012, that should allow you to open SW 2012 files.

 

I'm pretty sure that's what I've seen in the past.

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The latest service package for Inventor 2012 is SP2 and it is not supported to open Solidworks 2012 files Smiley Sad.

Inventor 2013 does supports to read Solidworks 2012 files.

 

For Jim's wrote:

I'm pretty sure that's what I've seen in the past.

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Thanks for the post and maybe the information for this topic post on somewhere is wrong, can you tell me where you had seen it ? We will correct the information if possible.

 

 

Have a nice day !!!

 

 

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Kevin Li

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sdeboer
in reply to: sdeboer

We loaded 2013 on a test machine and it works.

 

Now we have to schedule our upgrade to 2013. A little sooner than I would like though.

 

Thanks for all your help

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KevinLi-Autodesk
in reply to: sdeboer

Hi sdeboer,

 

Glad to see it works.

 

If you meet any other issues about Inventor data translation, please post in this forum or directly contact me via email: Hongyuan.Li@autodesk.com , we will follow up.

 

Have a nice day !!!

 

 

Regards,

Kevin Li

Quality Assurance Team

Autodesk, Inc.

 

Kevin-Hongyuan Li
Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Design, Lifecycle and Simulation Product Group
Direct: +86 21 2039 6025
Email: Hongyuan.Li@autodesk.com
Autodesk, Inc.
NO. 130, Lane 91, E Shan Rd
Building 12, Floor 6,
Shanghai 200127, PRC
www.autodesk.com
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SBix26
in reply to: sdeboer

If you're not ready to move to Inventor 2013, just use it to open the Solidworks files, then save them to STEP format for use in 2012.  They are dumb solds coming into 2013, so you won't lose anything by STEPing them into 2012.

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