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Export of step files from inventor assembly

pierrehSHA9M — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 10:07:46 GMT

Isolated part in an assembly, and exported but step model position and orientation is not correct, I upgraded from 2020 to 2022. In 2020 the step files exported out of the top level assemble with correct position and orientation. This is crusial to ny work flow please help asap

Re: Export of step files from inventor assembly

JDMather — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 11:32:15 GMT

Can you Attach example files here?

Re: Export of step files from inventor assembly

johnsonshiue — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 20:59:12 GMT

Hi! Two things to check.

1. Does the assembly reference part files in the same name but stored in a different folder? For example, you have ASMB -> Sub1 -> PartA (in file folder A) + Sub2 -> PartA (in file folder B). The two PartA files arre stored in different folders but the are both PartA.ipt.

This will lead to incorrect STEP export due to name collision. Inventor supports duplicate files but STEP does not.

2. Does the assembly contain assembly features or weldment? We have a regression in 2022. An assembly with assembly features or weldment is not properly exported to STEP. It should have been fixed on the just released 2022.3 update. Please install it and report back.

Many thanks!