Inventor DWG to AutoCAD as Block Via Design Center

[estringer]

We are exploring a workflow where we are saving a unit configuration sketch from our Inventor models as its own DWG and then placing it in AutoCAD using Design Center. We are running into some issues during the conversion process. When we place the Inventor DWG as a block into the AutoCAD DWG, the insertion point from Inventors origin is not maintained. Also, the rectangles that we created in the Inventor sketch are coming in as lines rather than a closed polyline when inserted into an AutoCAD DWG. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with this workflow and knows any ways to maintain the insertion point and also to have the linework come in as polylines within an AutoCAD DWG?

[pendean]

@estringer While you wait... you'll probably want to also ask in the INVENTOR forum for those exporting abilities/limitations, as AutoCAD, on the receiving end, has no ability to fix any of the issues you've outlined automatically at all.

Your other option of course is to take the time to manually "fix" each of those DWG files before using (define the insertion pint and convert all lines to Plines).

Here is the link to the INVENTOR forum if you need it https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/bd-p/78

[estringer]

Thank you, I posted on both forums simultaneously.

We did start looking at editing them manually in AutoCAD but were hoping to find out if there ways around that due to the time consumed.