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Opening an Inventor drawing file in AutoCAD

almuhandiswep — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 20:35:33 GMT

When I open a drawing file (DWG) from Inventor, in AutoCAD, the projections appear as in the attached image. Why?
And another question, even the projections that open in AutoCAD, I cannot modify them, even though I exported the file in Inventor in DWG format.
Thanks in advance.

Re: Opening an Inventor drawing file in AutoCAD

arron.craig — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 03:38:34 GMT

Where they "raster" views in Inventor when you exported?

Re: Opening an Inventor drawing file in AutoCAD

A.Acheson — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 04:15:06 GMT

@almuhandiswep what you have is an inventor dwg. It can be opened in Autocad but has limited functionality in that view blocks cannot be changed or exploded and allows adding annotations. If you want an Autocad dwg you need to export as Autocad dwg allowing you to explode view blocks and has all Autocad functionality. See link to export to autocad template. You can also save as see link here

Re: Opening an Inventor drawing file in AutoCAD

Gabriel_Watson — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 04:29:15 GMT

Inventor DWGs are not native to AutoCAD, and therefore cannot be simply modified as usual there. The interoperability is great for making titleblocks in AutoCAD and using them in Inventor, but I would suggest you to stay far away from editing Inventor DWGs in AutoCAD as if you could go back and forth. Usually such workflows are destructive to the drawing and only used for deliverables (after release) when you need to submit some changes to specific customers, and the modified drawing in AutoCAD will never see the light of Inventor again.

A little more on Inv. DWG editing in AutoCAD: https://www.cadlinecommunity.co.uk/hc/en-us/articles/201768852-Inventor-Drawings-DWG-v-IDW-AutoCAD

I would guess that your shaded views may have texture from certain Bitmaps attached... try maybe changing this setting from Always to Offline only?

Re: Opening an Inventor drawing file in AutoCAD

almuhandiswep — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 08:45:06 GMT

Thanks.
Excuse me
What is the difference - in a simplified form - between raster and precise?

Re: Opening an Inventor drawing file in AutoCAD

CCarreiras — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 09:30:46 GMT

Hi!

Raster is kind of a "midway" to achieve a view quickly, so, is only partially processed.
Precise is when you have the complete processed view.

Re: Opening an Inventor drawing file in AutoCAD

johnsonshiue — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 19:20:22 GMT

Please see my reply to the duplicate thread.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/opening-an-inventor-drawing-file-in-autocad/td-p/11274678

Many thanks!