topic Re: Inventor files to Fusion in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Inventor files to Fusion

LARA-Engineering — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 15:07:49 GMT

Is there a direct way to open Inventor files (IAM and IPT) into Fusion, without first converting into STEP ?

Re: Inventor files to Fusion

paul.clauss — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 15:20:28 GMT

Thanks for posting! It looks like you would like to move some Inventor .IPT and .IAM files into Fusion 360.

Neither of these files must be converted to STEP before being imported to Fusion! They must, however, undergo the cloud translation process by being uploaded through the Fusion 360 Data Panel. You can learn more about how to upload a design to the data panel in this article.

Inventor assemblies (.IAM files) are also uploaded through the data panel, but you must ensure that all linked designs are also uploaded simultaneously. To do so I would recommend using a Pack and Go from Inventor - you can learn more about the Pack and Go > Upload process in this article.

Hopefully this helps! Please let me know if you have any questions.

Re: Inventor files to Fusion

designer_TT1 — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:57:21 GMT

This doesn't work for me. I still can't figure out how to open IPT files in Fusion 360. I tried to upload the IPT file through the Data Panel. I can see the file name listed. However, if I double click the file in the list, it opens a webpage where I only have the open to download it as an IPT file. If I go to to the "file open" dialog box, and go to the project folder that the Data Panel says the file is located, I do not see the file, so I cannot open it.

Re: Inventor files to Fusion

HughesTooling — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:16:15 GMT

Are you using a personal license? Cloud translators are not included with the hobby version, the hobby version is restricted to STEP, IGS, SAT and SMT files.

Mark

Re: Inventor files to Fusion

designer_TT1 — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 23:53:59 GMT

Yes, thanks. I found the list of restricted file formats available for conversion by the type of license. It didn't see it until I dug deep into the product site.

Re: Inventor files to Fusion

ChrisF360 — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 15:21:33 GMT

This is a problem for me as well as I run the trial version to get a hang of things.

However, I have been able to open .ipt files some weeks back but somehow now I cannot upload them. It is the same result as some other user in thread. I believe it was paul.claus.

Has there been any changes lately for the upload of ipt. files or am I missing something?

Re: Inventor files to Fusion

TheCADWhisperer — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:46:17 GMT

@ChrisF360 wrote:
Has there been any changes lately for the upload of ipt. files or am I missing something?

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/fusion-360/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Fusion-360-Free-License-Changes.html

Re: Inventor files to Fusion

ChrisF360 — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:54:08 GMT

Thanks buddy! That makes sense!

Re: Inventor files to Fusion

Papercutz — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 23:24:44 GMT

not being able to open IPT files has rendered fusion useless to me. it was a handy converter to have as I 3D print things for myself that often come in IPT format.. thanks autodesk for removing the one and only useful thing in fusion. I guess it's back to piracy.

Re: Inventor files to Fusion

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 12:07:49 GMT

@Papercutz wrote:
not being able to open IPT files has rendered fusion useless to me. ….thanks autodesk for removing the one and only useful thing in fusion.

You are wrong.

It has not been removed.

Software piracy is unethical and illegal.

Re: Inventor files to Fusion

Papercutz — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 22:56:43 GMT

Yes it has been removed -If you're on the newer hobbyist/personal/non-commercial licensing tier then you can no longer open .ipt files or any other "commercial" file formats.

Piracy is the result of software giving users no other avenue - You can pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to open that 'special' format file - or you can download something, use it, then delete it when done.. Since most of the time all that is required is to covert a file to a universal format like STEP / XT and so on.

Re: Inventor files to Fusion

vactemp2022 — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 20:57:51 GMT

Hi,

does anybody know whether files through "cloud translation" are being saved in the cloud? I work on confidential projects and would have liked to try out the feature. But it's a no go for me, if confidential data remains somewhere in the deep universe of Autodesk servers...

Thank you + Regards

Re: Inventor files to Fusion

datsunzcr8NYEE — Wed, 28 May 2025 14:23:28 GMT

I would like to know this too. It seems silly to me to have to upload and then download to translate a file for use on a product by the same manufacturer. Autodesk really needs to get its crap together. If all their products worked together, maybe we as consumers, could get our work done. What I really hate is the fact that over the course of 30 years worth of licenses and the like (totally close to $40k) I still have to pay to use Autocad and Inventor. It is more than my car payment per month and I still have to translate drawings for my metal shop.