>I just purchased Inventor last month.
How much professional training did you purchase to go along with your purchase of professional software?
You can import 2d dwg into Inventor to create 3d (there is even a utility on labs to automate this) but I suggest you use the existing dwg to practice by creating from scratch in Inventor. As indicated you can start from an inch or metric template and in any file append any units needed to the values and Inventor will convert for you.
If you run into trouble start a new thread and attach your file here.
You might want to read this document http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/AU2007/MA105-1L%20Mather.pdf
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