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Exporting From the Autodesk space to a graphic design space

naterecord — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 20:38:34 GMT

Hello All,

I am seeking a more efficient workflow from going from Inventor to a vector graphic design software. One that hopefully maintains metadata for possible automation of task.

My current workflow starts with either receiving Inventor assembly(.iam) files from my engineering department. I then either create a presentation file and blow the assembly apart or (using a copy) blow apart the assembly within the .iam file. I then create an inventor drawing file with the views of the assembly I want and save as a (AutoCad.dwg) file. This file is imported into Corel Designer (I am sure you could do this with Adobe Illustrator as well).

The problem is that when the file is imported It is just a single grouping of thousands of lines with no metadata. I have found a video off an add on package to Corel that could simplify this process and possibly maintain metadata.

https://youtu.be/HPW9P8soNLg

Does anyone have a better solution?

Thank you for any help.

Re: Exporting From the Autodesk space to a graphic design space

pcrawley — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 22:31:59 GMT

The old Inventor Publisher product was probably the best answer to this question, but Autodesk killed it a few years ago and pumped their resources into making Inventor's presentation environment better. (ipn's - which you already use).

I'm not aware of any 3rd party products that take the model and metadata any further. There are plenty of options if you are prepared to dump the metadata - but that's specifically what you want to keep. So, I think you're stuck with ipn and idw or dwg.

Re: Exporting From the Autodesk space to a graphic design space

Frederick_Law — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 23:30:36 GMT

You converted 3D iam into 2D DWG then import into Corel.

Do you want to work with 3D in Corel?

What 3D format Corel can read? STP/STEP, Parasolid/x_t/x_b?