topic Re: Unable to open SLDPRT in Inventor 2016 in Inventor Forum

Unable to open SLDPRT in Inventor 2016

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:52:47 GMT

Hi Everyone,

New to the forum here, and pretty green when it comes to working with Inventor and Solidworks.

I'm trying to import/open a sldprt file from SWX 2016 standard into Inventor 2016, and i get the error stating it's an unsupported version. I've done the update 1 for inventor. Previous to the update, the error popping up was invalid file type.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Unable to open SLDPRT in Inventor 2016

wilkhui — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:58:20 GMT

Hi - are you able to share your model? Please send me a private message if not.

The Inventor and SWX years differ so I'd expect Inventor 2017 can open your file, I can do that for you and send you back a file that you can open in your version of Inventor.

Cheers,

Indy

Re: Unable to open SLDPRT in Inventor 2016

Mark.Lancaster — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:58:39 GMT

@Anonymous

Welcome to the community...

Inventor 2016 is unable to open SW 2016 parts.. Rule.. Inventor is 1 yr behind.. So you can only open SW 2015 parts or go to Inventor 2017.

Re: Unable to open SLDPRT in Inventor 2016

Anonymous — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 18:21:25 GMT

Thanks Mark for the Tip. We upgraded to Inventor 2017 and can open the 2016 sldprt files without any issues.

Re: Unable to open SLDPRT in Inventor 2016

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 22:02:32 GMT

Hello. I need help badly. I have a file a customer sent me. Its an SLDPRT file and when I open it nothing shows up, but then a notepad opens with code? Please help I am going to loose this contract if I can not work on it this weekend 6/2/2017

Re: Unable to open SLDPRT in Inventor 2016

JDMather — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 22:09:59 GMT

What version of Inventor (including Service Pack)?

What version of SolidWorks?

What is the size of the file?

Can you attach it here?

Re: Unable to open SLDPRT in Inventor 2016

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 22:16:39 GMT

I have Autodesk Inventor HSM 2015. It will only allow me to upload 3 files. I have more if I am able to email you the file?

Re: Unable to open SLDPRT in Inventor 2016

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 22:21:12 GMT

Re: Unable to open SLDPRT in Inventor 2016

JDMather — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 22:38:04 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

I have Autodesk Inventor HSM 2015. It will only allow me to upload 3 files. I have more if I am able to email you the file?

You can right click on folder containing all files and select Send to Compressed (zipped) Folder and then attach the resulting single *.zip file.

You should be aware that this is a public forum, so if the files are proprietary - do not attach them here.

The files were created in SolidWorks 2015 - so you would need Inventor 2016 to convert them.

I think you could convert them through https://myhub.autodesk360.com/ , but not sure about that - give it a try.

(convert to STEP *.stp to open in Inventor 2015)

You will be out of luck for drawing files (*.slddrw).