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Sending Drawings to Customer for Design Approval?

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AlanE
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‎11-24-2003 01:57 AM
‎11-24-2003 01:57 AM

Sending Drawings to Customer for Design Approval?

Can I send just the .idw or do I need to send the .ipt and .iam files associated with the drawing. I am only a month into using IV...

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Anonymous
in reply to: AlanE
‎11-24-2003 02:00 AM
‎11-24-2003 02:00 AM

Do they have Inventor?  If so then yes you'd
need to send all files.

 

A better (and safer) suggestion might be a PDF of
the IDW if they don't need to see the models (or if they don't have
Inventor)


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Can
I send just the .idw or do I need to send the .ipt and .iam files associated
with the drawing. I am only a month into using IV...

Al

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Anonymous
in reply to: AlanE
‎11-24-2003 02:03 AM
‎11-24-2003 02:03 AM

Neither... DWF or PDF.  Much easier.  If you send an IDW, your
customer must have some Inventor file viewer.  Sure, both DWF and PDF
require a viewer as well, but I think most people already have Acrobat Reader
installed to view PDFs.


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Can
I send just the .idw or do I need to send the .ipt and .iam files associated
with the drawing. I am only a month into using IV...

Al

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AlanE
in reply to: AlanE
‎11-24-2003 02:08 AM
‎11-24-2003 02:08 AM

The customer has the ability to see Inventor files, I talked to him this morning and he can read idw.
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AlanE
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‎11-24-2003 02:09 AM
‎11-24-2003 02:09 AM

Also I dont' have the ability to write pdf.
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Jagz
in reply to: AlanE
‎11-24-2003 02:12 AM
‎11-24-2003 02:12 AM

An idw file is linked directly to the iam and ipt files. If the customer you are talking to can open an idw it still means he will need the iam and ipt files. An idw is not a picture like a pdf it is a file that stores many links and those links have information of how to display them in the idw. A pdf takes a snapshot of a file and makes a non-linked picture. The best thing you can do if they do not have inventor is to make a pdf or dwg..etc. Files that are just pictures. Not linked to other files. If they have inventor equal to your version or better then you can send him all the files.
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Anonymous
in reply to: AlanE
‎11-24-2003 02:22 AM
‎11-24-2003 02:22 AM


 

free


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I dont' have the ability to write pdf.
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MechMan_
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in reply to: AlanE
‎11-24-2003 02:39 AM
‎11-24-2003 02:39 AM

If he has IV then you can send him just the IDW. It'll ask him for the supporting files but just have him hit "Skip All" and it'll open the IDW enough to view & print. Now if he's trying to use another program such as VV then I'm not sure if this works or not.

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rllthomas
in reply to: AlanE
‎11-24-2003 02:40 AM
‎11-24-2003 02:40 AM

Leaders to model edges get all messed up when you do this. Well OK it used to I haven't tried it in a long time.
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AlanE
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‎11-24-2003 02:42 AM
‎11-24-2003 02:42 AM

Thanks Sean

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Anonymous
in reply to: AlanE
‎11-24-2003 02:51 AM
‎11-24-2003 02:51 AM

Do they really need the IPT or IAM? I just double checked, and made a part, and a IDW of
it. Saved it, then deleted the IPT. When I opened the IDW It complained, but viewed
fine. If you want them to view and or print without being able to edit that might be a
options???

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> An idw file is linked directly to the iam and ipt files. If the customer you are talking
to can open an idw it still means he will need the iam and ipt files. An idw is not a
picture like a pdf it is a file that stores many links and those links have information of
how to display them in the idw.
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Anonymous
in reply to: AlanE
‎11-24-2003 02:54 AM
‎11-24-2003 02:54 AM

I tend to not do this either.  In the past it
has mucked up the annotation info in the IDW.


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Leaders
to model edges get all messed up when you do this. Well OK it used to I
haven't tried it in a long time.
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MechMan_
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in reply to: AlanE
‎11-24-2003 02:57 AM
‎11-24-2003 02:57 AM

I've only done it a couple of times in the past but it did work. I guess I was just lucky.

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AlanE
in reply to: AlanE
‎11-24-2003 03:02 AM
‎11-24-2003 03:02 AM

I may try sending just the ipt first and see what the customer says...don't know if they need to have the iam and ipt's. As far as I could tell from the phone call this morning he only needs to view them. If he doesn't like the look of it with just the idw I may try the pdf that Sean gave the link to. May just be simpler.

Thanks all

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Anonymous
in reply to: AlanE
‎11-24-2003 03:13 AM
‎11-24-2003 03:13 AM

Actually you can send idw files seperate from all
the parts, it'll want the part files, but if you tell it to skip the links the
actual drawing will be there. Mind you this works across my network for
demonstration purposes the real world may work differently


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An
idw file is linked directly to the iam and ipt files. If the customer you are
talking to can open an idw it still means he will need the iam and ipt files.
An idw is not a picture like a pdf it is a file that stores many links and
those links have information of how to display them in the idw. A pdf takes a
snapshot of a file and makes a non-linked picture. The best thing you can do
if they do not have inventor is to make a pdf or dwg..etc. Files that are just
pictures. Not linked to other files. If they have inventor equal to your
version or better then you can send him all the
files.
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