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Export to Autocad Dwg with Shaded view

Boopathi_Sivakumar — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 06:56:48 GMT

Hello fellas,

Is it really not possible to export inventor dwg to Autocad dwg with the shaded colors.

look at the below example

i have drawing in Inventor for some reasons i need to use it in autocad when ever I try to export in Autocad it shows only the edges i understand the concept behind it

still everything in a single layer feels like really!!! needs some improvisation in this at least solid hatch would do a much relief. i know that no other software is capable of doing this shaded views while exporting but in UG they have a feature While creating parts they are assigning it to layers so easily when ever they are exporting it into autocad edges comes with layers also with the colors when the modeled it.

Regards,
Boopathi

Re: Export to Autocad Dwg with Shaded view

mcgyvr — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 12:32:18 GMT

There is some ilogic code that can assign different color or whatever parts to different layers if thats what your goal is..

What is it you are actually trying to achieve? It seems like you want to have an autocad drawing with each part being a different layer or something.. Is that correct?

Maybe something like this..

http://modthemachine.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/10/changing-drawing-curves-to-match-assembly-color.html

There are others too..

Re: Export to Autocad Dwg with Shaded view

Cadmanto — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 14:21:00 GMT

The short answer is no you cannot export out a shaded view into Autocad. What you can do if this helps is create a screen shot of the shaded view and save it as a .jpg file and import that into Autocad in your ACAD drawing.

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Re: Export to Autocad Dwg with Shaded view

johnsonshiue — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:59:11 GMT

Hi! Indeed, shaded views are not exported to DWG with the shades unfortunately. As a workaround, you could save it as PDF or DWF and then import it to AutoCAD.

Many thanks!

Re: Export to Autocad Dwg with Shaded view

dgorsman — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 17:47:24 GMT

When you generate lines/arcs/etc. for AutoCAD there is literally nothing to shade - you're only defining edges. Doing this as a "drawing" rather than a "model" means those lines are generated as "object line" "hidden line" and other generics rather than something specific to an individual object, with those generic properties determining which layer it goes on.

I suspect what you are looking for requires generating 3D solids for AutoCAD, from there you can use one of the shaded visual styles to show them in color either in model space or through a paper space viewport.

Re: Export to Autocad Dwg with Shaded view

Boopathi_Sivakumar — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 10:31:55 GMT

Thats a Great piece of work kudos

this is what exactly looking.

Thanks a lot

Regards,
Boopathi