topic Re: Faulty STEP translation in Inventor Forum

Faulty STEP translation

NigelHay — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:04:57 GMT

There seems to be a glitch between our PCB design software (Altium Designer 19) & Inventor 2019 when importing this particular STEP file. The 8 odd 'hourglass' shaped cut-outs are rounded slots when created in Altium but take on this strange shape when opened in Inventor either by saving the STEP file or importing into an ipt. I assume that this is some sort of mismatch in translation between Altium & Inventor, is there anything I can do to overcome this. It's not really causing any big problem in this instance, just like to have it displaying correctly.

'Edit' I tried to attach the STEP file but it was removed when I posted.

Re: Faulty STEP translation

Frederick_Law — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 12:41:35 GMT

ZIP the file before attach.

Re: Faulty STEP translation

NigelHay — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 13:56:15 GMT

Zipped.

Re: Faulty STEP translation

Frederick_Law — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 14:03:29 GMT

Same issue importing with SW.

Try export as STEP 203 or Parasolid or IGES.

Re: Faulty STEP translation

NigelHay — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 14:14:45 GMT

It seems that Altium only exports as STEP files & does not allow you to choose the protocol so it seems we are stuck with it as it is. As I said at the start, it's not a big problem, just annoying.