Thing that other cad package make better job than inventor

[yannick3]

Hi Autodesk

Why other cad package can combine them multisheet drawing in one exported DWG  drawing and the DWG's creator can't do this simple job with Inventor? and the dwf can! :

I can't understand that.

Someone have find a workaround ?

[mercerc]

Can you be a little more specific on the what your are trying to do and what the end result you’re seeking?

Thanks

[yannick3]

Hi

create multisheet drawing(ex:3 sheet) with inventor and try to save as .dwg 2004 and the the result is 3 different dwg

if i try with SE or SW it combine all sheet in one drawing

[scottmoyse]

I agree it's an ongoing issue annoying a lot of people and its about time Autodesk sorted it out.

[yannick3]

Hi Mercerc

Do you have some feedback for workaround?

thanks

[mercerc]

       The only way I’ve found to get both paper sheets in one file when exporting from Inventor is to save as Inventor dwg. The file can then be opened in AutoCAD and you can do a save as 2004 format. This doesn’t however address the save as 2004 format as a direct output. All the other export options will break the different sheets to individual files as you may well know.

      Sometimes it’s helpful to know the desired end function or intention to address a alternate solution.

[scottmoyse]

thats great, but you still can't edit anything because the drawing is made up of blocks in paper space.

You guys seriously need to get to the bottom of this Inventor drawing to Autocad drawing conversion, it really is very poor, and for some reason no one at Autodesk seems to get it.

Our competitors here in New Zealand use Inventor as well and we both struggle to provide dwg copies of our inventor drawings to our clients which they can then use to add to or edit for their requirements.

[yannick3 · Accepted solution]

hi Scott

I 've find great fonctionnality. maybe old one

Open directly Inventor DWG with autocad, save as older version, now your custumer can, with older autocad version, edit the inventor's drawing(hi can play with all view block in object space, "insert block ") insert autocad annotation(paper and object space),etc

When your receive the edited dwg(old autocad version), you can directly open with Inventor and all autocad annotation will be there with the edited block in object space and the greatest thing is all inventor's view references will be keep and updated.

After your editing, pick autcad object RMB, delete all autocad stuff

It's look like DESIGN REVIEW on steroide

Great one Autodesk

[scottmoyse]

I'm not sure its a 'Great one Autodesk' for this functionality being available by saving to an older Acad DWG file version.

What file version did you save back to?

Any chance of a screen capture to show what you are doing?

It sounds like everything is still in paperspace, but editable?

[yannick3]

Hi

When you work with Inventor dwg, all sheet view are store in DWG block format for export purpose.

if you open with autocad and switch to object sapce (empty as well), you can insert inventor view block(insert autocad block,by default the scale 1:1 real dim), explode and you can edit it. save the drawing in old DWG format.

open the edited old dwg with inventor and now you have new icon in browser; it's the edited block.

see pic

[scottmoyse]

Ok i thought thats what you are doing. Cheers for spending the time to reply but this is NOT an acceptable workaround on a daily basis. for one of drawings sure. for dozens of drawings with multiple sheets containing a lot of information its a nightmare. 

As i already explained (on this thread I think) these 'block views' have different block origins from each other. So placing them becomes a manual process. We have some macros that extract and rebuild views, but not entire sheet sets. I don't see why we should be the ones developing it to be honest. As a result of our macro development we have noticed the way these view blocks are generated seems to be changed year on year. Simply because we put in all kinds of contingecies to capture 'the weirdness' and then in the next release they dont work and in fact require significant changes.

So I'm sorry Yannick although this may work for the odd drawing, beyond that its a nightmare.