Back about v4 or early v5 (there's an old post in the archives) time I did
some tests exporting STEP, importing into MDT and detailing. I don't
remember all the in's and out's, but the gist of it is that you can xref an
assembly into a new drawing to do the detailing. If you "refresh" the
assembly; e.g. export a new STEP, import into MDT, name same as original,
open the drawing of the assembly; most or all of the annotations attached to
parts that were not changed would remain intact (? memory is the second
thing to go). Might be worth picking up and working on.
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"John Bilton" wrote in message
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> When working in a mixed environment (Inventor and ACAD/M DX), in order to
detail assemblies you first need to derive them into a
> part. However, when you are working with a large complex assembly (think
of an entire escalator assembly for example), the derive
> part option just isn't up to it and it won't derive.
>
> This work around is non-associative, so should not be used for work in
progress.
>
> Save assembly as STEP.
> Start a new companion drawing in DX.
> Click cancel when it asks you to choose an inventor file.
> Insert -> STEP...
> Switch to layout1, RMB and create new view.
>
> I thought this was pretty cool.
>
> Happy St. George's day.
>
> John Bilton
>
>
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