how do i export my fusion 360 assemblies to inventor LT or inventor pro?

[bschiett]

Hi All

I am tired of the laggyness of fusion 360 and need to take my work into a desktop version of inventor. If possible the LT version. If not, the pro version. 

I know there is a way to download inventor 2014 files for a fusion 360 project using the a360 portal. I tried that and it gives me a part file without features, design history, sketches, etc. All assembly and referencing info is gone. This doesn't work for me. 

Is there a solution to this? 

Thanks

B

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

No there's no way to transfer all the history to Inventor. All the translators between solidmodelers I've used only transfer the solid model, there are too many differences between the programs.

Mark

[bschiett]

Thanks! That is what I feared. I hope someone from autodesk can confirm this (anyone?).

This makes no sense to me. How do I "move up" to inventor when fusion 360 is not right for me anymore? Or is inventor going to be killed off for fusion 360?

[mike.tessier]

Hi @bschiett,

Welcome to the Fusion 360 Community!

As @HughesTooling said there is no way to transfer all history to Inventor. This is as designed, as Fusion 360 is a timeline based parametric/direct modeler, where as Inventor is strictly parametric.

I would also like to note that Inventor isn't going anywhere 🙂

Hope this helps!

Cheers,

[bschiett]

so if I don't need the timeline and switch it off, all info will be exported? including sketches?

I was able to export the assemblies (after making them visible in fusion 360), using a360.

i did not turn on the sketches. do they have to be turned on for a360 to export them as well?

i don't necessarily need the timeline but I do want to see the features for all the parts and I want to referencing geometry in the sketches to be there et c....

[mike.tessier]

Hi @bschiett,

Currently, the interoperability works like importing a CAD neutral file format. There is not way to get features or sketches to transfer, only the "dumb"solids." 

You could try using the feature recognition tool in Inventor found in the app store.

If you need the sketch, I note you could always right click on the sketch and save it as a DXF, then import that separately into Inventor, however there is no seamless integration between Fusion 360 and Inventor at this time.

Hope this helps!

[HughesTooling]

DWG exports curves and surfaces, I don't know if inventor can read 3d DWG files though.

Here's a part in Fusion

Exported as a DWG then opened in ZW3d, as long as the sketch is visible it comes through in the DWG.

Mark

[bschiett]

thanks for clarifying ... I think i'll move off fusion 360 in the near future when I work on our next design and start using inventor or something else. 

[TheCADWhisperer]

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@HughesTooling wrote:

.... I don't know if inventor can read 3d DWG files though.

Mark

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Yes, Inventor does read dwg files.

[schneik-adsk]

Can we go back to the start and try and fix the lag? Can you help clarify when is the lag happening. Is it orbit? Open/save? Sketching? Can you post an image of what you are working on that might help us get a better idea of what you are making? i.e how big or complex...

We should be able to help fix the lag so you don't have to leave and suffer having to migrate the work you have done.

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Let's be honest here... Fusion 360 IS laggy. Don't get me wrong, I love the application, but I switched jobs a few months ago, and had to move to Inventor. At first I dreaded it, because I liked Fusion too much, but after a few weeks I'm Inventor all the way and never looked back!

Oh yes, I did look back, today, because I needed to design something quickly on my Mac mini which doesn't have Parallels. After an hour I got sick of the lag, weird behaviour, crashes, ... deleted my design and went to my MacBook Pro (which does have Parallels and Inventor) and finished the design in under an hour...

I see Fusion 360 more like a playground for Autodesk developers, where they can try new stuff and the audience is more forgiving than professionals who have their entire business relying on Inventor...

I said this many times on these forums: Inventor and SolidWorks run FASTER in a Parallels virtual machine than Fusion does natively on macOS... (and it's sluggish in the VM too)

My verdict:

- home user: Fusion 360

- professional : Inventor, without a doubt