Can't open DXF from exporting face in Inventor

[B_Bevelander]

I made a small lid with some holes in Inventor and wanted to export this lids face to DXF to send to a company to lasercut it, but I cant seem to open the DXF in neither ACAD2016 nor DWG Trueview 2018.

Both programs give the following message when trying to open: 

'Unknown value "AC1032" encountered in drawing version.
Invalid or incomplete DXF input -- drawing discarded.'

Am i doing anything wrong? I there a way to fix this?

Added the Partfile so you can see for yourself.

[Thomas_Savage]

Hello,

I selected the face. Left click, and Export Face As. Then saved as a DXF.

And this opened fine in TrueView 2018.

Thomas.

[Mark.Lancaster]

@B_Bevelander

This part was made with Inventor 2018 and by default the DWG and DXF format is created based on AutoCAD 2018 new DWG/DXF format.  That's why the "AC1032" error appears.  That code is associated to the new AutoCAD 2018 DWG format and AutoCAD 2016 is unable to read or open that file.  You would need to save your DXF file format back to the AutoCAD 2013 DWG version.

However DWG Trueview 2018 should be able to open it (as @Thomas_Savage pointed out).

[Thomas_Savage · Accepted solution]

As @Mark.Lancaster says save it to an older version of AutoCAD.

I did a quick Screencast showing TrueVeiw 2018 Opening it.

Thomas.

[B_Bevelander]

I do the exact same thing (I think).

1. Select face

Face lits up blue

2. TMB to open menu

3. Select option: Export Face As

4. Save the DXF to a filename

Following these steps and then opening it in ACAD will give me the error. TrueView does seem to be able to open it now.

[Thomas_Savage]

@B_Bevelander

Check my Screencast.

Do the same and see if it opens.

Thomas.

[B_Bevelander]

To save as an older version, is that possible in Inventor? Trueview can only convert DWG files not DXF.

[B_Bevelander]

@Thomas_Savage

I did exactly as your screencast and can open it in TrueView, but Acad straight up crashes after 5 seconds of opening it.

[Thomas_Savage]

Have you tried saving as a DWG and not DXF?

Thomas.

[B_Bevelander]

I can open the DWG after converting it in TrueView.

But this all seem to take to many steps each time i would wish to open an DXF exported from Inventor to AutoCad: 

Save face as DWG --> open in TrueView --> Convert to lower version --> open in ACAD --> Save as DXF.

Why does Inventor not have the same options to save files as their earlier counterparts like AutoCad does?

[Mark.Lancaster · Accepted solution]

When you export a face to DXF, select the options button on the save as dialog and select AutoCAD 2013 DXF file format.

[B_Bevelander]

Thank @Mark.Lancaster didn't know that.

Saving the face as DXF 2013-2010 did allow me to open it normally in AutoCad.