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Sending an Assembly to an Older Version of Inventor

billjenkins — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 16:30:55 GMT

I use Inventor 2009 Pro and I have a friend that uses the 2008 version of Inventor. Can I send him an assembly that he can open or can I only send individual parts in a STEP extension or any other extension that you may suggest?

Note: JD explained how to use Pack & Go so I know how to do that.

Thanks,

Bill

Re: Sending an Assembly to an Older Version of Inventor

Mark.Lancaster — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 16:37:41 GMT

INventor is not backwards compatible. So either export the entire assembly as a STEP file or you can do the individual files as STEP. It all depends on what you friend needs.

Re: Sending an Assembly to an Older Version of Inventor

JDMather — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 16:39:26 GMT

You do not use Pack and Go for this.

Open the Assembly.

Save Copy as type STEP (*.stp)

They will get the assembly parts and all, but no assembly constraints, no feature tree, no Dynamic Simulation stuff.

Just parts and assembly.