Transfer from Inventor to Fusion 360 with history

[qwmS7SM9]

Is there a method to transfer a design from Inventor to Fusion 360 that preserves the parametric design history? 

I have tried simply to open the Inventor file in Fusion, but history is lost. 

[P-BvanWyk]

Good day @qwmS7SM9,

Have you tried the F360 Interoperability?

[qwmS7SM9]

If you mean the built-in Fusion tab in Inventor 2023, yes, I tried that. Initially, I struggled to get that to work on an enterprise machine. Inventor kept throwing an error. Apparently, you have to disable antivirus, which is an awful solution, and isn’t something your average, non-IT admin can readily do.

But I got the interoperability feature to work on a virtual machine. However, the part shows up in Fusion as a single body, with no history. So Fusion and Inventor are no more interoperable than say, either of those and Solidworks.

[P-BvanWyk]

That is less than ideal.

The only other alternative I can think of is adding the assembly to Fusion 360 through the web client.

Navigate to the desired location then under upload you have the option to upload an assembly.

Not sure if the results will differ from doing the same thing within Fusions Data Panel though.

[g-andresen]

Hi,

As far as I know, there is no CAD application that exports or imports histories, which is somehow understandable.

Günther

[qwmS7SM9]

I agree that I don't entirely expect history preservation from Solidworks to Inventor (or vice-versa). But I thought that since Autodesk owns both Inventor and Fusion, they'd know how to translate the files between what are both parametric modelers. My assumption at this point is that the two applications use completely different codebases and so history translation is non-trivial.

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

The problem is not in the knowledge of what each feature does in each product, but the fact that the feature sets do not match.  For instance, Fusion has local components, and Inventor does not.  Inventor supports "solid sweep" and Fusion does not.  For history translation to be effective, it must be 100% accurate.  Just missing one feature in a 500-feature model (or worse, the feature being there, but producing slightly different outcomes) will ruin the entire design.  Yes, it could be solved for simple designs (rectangle + Extrude is likely to be the same in both products), but, translating simple designs is not sufficient.