Import and "smooth" out dwg drawing from CMM measured part

[pball]

I have a drawing that was made using a CMM arm, so the drawing consists of thousands of tiny lines which make up the perimeter of the part. I'm looking to import this dwg file into Inventor in order to make a sheet metal part and eventually a flat layout of it.

The main thing I'm looking to do is "smooth" out the profile, hopefully without having to redraw the part with the dwg drawing as a template. Is there anyway to acomplish what I'm looking to do? I've attached a sample of the dwg incase that will help any.

[JDMather]

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pball wrote:

Is there anyway to acomplish what I'm looking to do?

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No easy button solution.

Use the imported information as reference only.  (you will probably want to covert to a sketch block, based on what you attached I think you might need to rotate the block)

Start a new sketch and sketch overtop the imported data.  An image file might be about as easy (or easier) to use - but watch out for parallax error - use only for reference.  Certain features like holes (sizes and locations) should be easy to measure and use for reference.