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How to Export Inventor to Catia and retain the same file structure?

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Anonymous
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How to Export Inventor to Catia and retain the same file structure?

We save our files in the same folder, be it the assembly level, part level, or drawing level.

When I export an Inventor assembly to Catia format, the end result is a CATProduct and a new folder with all of the Catia files necessary for that top level assembly.
Prior to opening the CATProduct in Catia, I can go into a windows explorer window and drag those files out/up one level to the same directory as the top level assembly, and Catia resolves any link problems on it's own. But this is one step that seems like you should be able to get around.

How do I tell Inventor to stop creating this folder and simply save the files in the same directory as the top level assembly?

Thanks in advance.
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Anonymous
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Version??
2009 or 2010?

If I do a Save Copy As in 2010, the CATpart is saved in the same folder. See
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Dennis,

To my understanding, 2009 only opens Catia. It doesn't export to Catia. This is 2010 I'm talking about.


You appear to only be exporting a single Inventor part file to a Catia CATPart file. I'm talking about an assembly (product) of Inventor files exported to a Catia CATProduct and subsequent CATParts. Inventor will save the CATProduct in the same directory as the Inventor assembly, but the subsequent CATParts get stored in a folder that it creates during the export. I want it to stop creating that folder and just save the parts next to the assembly, the same way the Inventor files are saved.


See attached.
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ChrisPan01
in reply to: Anonymous

This is as design for Catia export. There is no way to export Catia assembly to one folder. You can copy the top assembly to the new created folder where parts are.

Best Regards,
Jin Pan
Autodesk Inventor Translator
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Anonymous
in reply to: ChrisPan01

Hi there,

 

I would like to open a Autodesk Inventor part with CATIA V5R19 but unfortunately I don't know how to do it. It is quite urgent so if someone has a suggestion it would be very nice.

 

Thanks a lot

Message 6 of 6
rdyson
in reply to: Anonymous

If you have Inventor, simply Save Copy As .catpart
If you don't have Inventor, you should probably be asking in a Catia forum


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