Inv to Mech desktop models / assembly

[Wogz]

Can you? Convert Inventor parts an dassemblies to Mech desktop parts and assemblies?



I know you can go Mech desktop to Inv, and would expect to go the other way..

[MechMan_]

Nope, only IV to MDT as far as feature translation. To go from IV to MDT you'll have to STEP out the IV model.

MechMan

[Wogz]

Thanks Mechman



Some sales guys will tell you anything to make a sale, eh?! Or dumb on my part, for assuming that if it goes one way, it'll go the other way too..

[MechMan_]

Sad that a salesman told you it went both ways. I expect that it is within Autodesk's power to make it translate both ways but this is just part of the marketing effort to push MDT users in ONE direction. Once you're in IV they don't want you to drop back down into MDT.



It just occurred to me that there is some sort of feature translator on the MDT CD. Maybe it's only on the AIS6 CD? I can't remember since I've never used it. Theoretically you could STEP out an IV part and then run it through the MDT feature translator to rebuild the part into a feature based solid for MDT. Maybe someone else can chime in on this.

MechMan