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<cames71646> wrote in messageThe
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company I just started with started using Inventor a year ago and do all
drawings in the Inventor DWG format instead of using the IDW. When they first
purchased Inventor the choice was there to use Inventor DWG or Inventor IDW
and they chose the DWG format (mainly because they had been using AutCad and
were familiar with that file extension. There is no apparent reason at this
time to do this but I'm curious as to the shortcomings in the future.
Previously, I have always used the IDW format (at other companies) as the
choice was not there when I started using Inventor. It appears that the DWG
format files are larger on most assemblies but other than that I am looking
for reasons for a switch to the IDW format. Since a number of drawing files
are already completed in the DWG format I will need some reasons why this
direction should be changed to the IDW unless there is absolutely no reason to
change. I know you can save an Inventor DWG as an IDW but a message is
displayed "The file contains data that cannot be written to the selected file
format. Only native Inventor data will be written to this file." and once this
is accepted then the Inventor DWG is then saved to the IDW format. As I
mentioned, I am looking for some good reasons to switch to the IDW format (if
any) or if any others are saving to the DWG format as well. My concern would
be that Autdesk would drop the DWG from the Inventor software as it seems to
have been added later to satisfy those those use both AutoCad and Inventor in
their departments. Just looking for input............
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<RonnieWilkins> wrote in messageIMHO
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(and yes it is only an opinion and I know what they say about 'em), If
anything they should drop IDW. Why actively develop and support two file
formats, when one of those works perfectly fine AND makes interoperability
painless. Kind of comes back to the "We are not planning to retire Mechanical
Desktop".
" DWG files are a bit bigger"
Maybe if you do small assemblies and parts.
Our company can't use the dwg format because the file size goes to 40-50 mb (inventor dwg) instead of 1-2mb (if I save as dwg from idw)
Most of our models are 1-5k parts with alow of duct and pipe, I'd hope to see autodesk research making the inventor dwg file size smaller.
A jump of 20 times the file size is more than just a bit in my opinion.
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