INVENTOR MODEL TO GIZA

[ferrisb]

Good Morning All, I'm trying to get a simple inventor file into GIZA. Does anyone know how I should do this? Inventor 2016

[JDMather]

What is GIZA?

Why no link to their website?

What file formats does it read?

Do they have a user forum?

[Mark.Lancaster]

@JDMather   I'm thinking the OP is talking about this...

@ferrisb  As JDMather pointed out..  Find out what file format this 3rd party CAD can use and then see if Inventor can export those file types.

[ferrisb]

Thanks, Giza is for library design. http://www.2020spaces.com/ It can open dwg file types, but they need to be faces. Apparently it only imports dwg or dxf files, but it needs to be faces only.

[JDMather]

Save as dwg.

Open in AutoCAD.

Explode

Run the List or Properties command and verify that the geometry is Faces.

Oops, that isn't working - let me try another option.  

[ferrisb]

Thanks JD! I think that's getting me heading in the right direction. 1. Explode the 3D Solid to Regions 2. Use the CONVTOMESH command to convert the Regions to a Mesh 3. Explode the Mesh to create the 3D Faces. This works for pulling the 3d geometry into GIZA. Now I just need to get the named views; top view especially to go into GIZA.