Pack & Go after Free Trial expires

[davehardiman7720]

Hi,  

I have 17 days left on my free trial of Inventor. I am going to start using Fusion 360 but want to pack and go my assemblies ready to upload to Fusion.  My question is: Does the pack and go function still work after the Inventor Trial finishes?

Thanks

Dave

[JDMather]

Why not Pack & Go before the trial ends.

Are  you aware the the free personal license of Fusion 360 no longer translates Inventor files?

[davehardiman7720]

I will be trying to do the pack & go before the trial ends but I have many assemblies and time is running out.  I just wanted to know whether I need to start panicking or not.  Yes I will be buying Fusion 360.

[JDMather]

Where are you storing your Inventor files?  (You should never lose access to the files - even if you don't have Inventor.)

Are you using logical project folders?

If you have been following a use of logical project folders - there is really no need to do anything.  But you should not need clarification.

I think the fact that you are asking these questions - you should back up your work now and know with confidence that you have your project folders with all files.

[davehardiman7720]

The files are stored on a local hard drive which is backed up.  The project organization could be better and it will take me quite a while to pack and go the assemblies.  I really just wanted to either do this within the next 17 days if the pack and go function doesn't work or do it with more time available if the pack and go still works.

[davehardiman7720]

Ok so I guess nobody knows the answer then.  I will post if the pack & go will still function after the trial has run out when I find out in 16 days.  Thanks for your help!!

[WHolzwarth]

I'm in doubt, if this is the best workflow for transferring Inventor files to F360.
Perhaps I didn't test thoroughly enough, but I noticed:

- Each component of an Inventor top-level assembly needs an upload to F360
- No parametrics are transferred, only dumb bodies
- No constraints are transferred

On the other hand could be saving a copy of the top-level assembly as STEP, and uploading this to F360.
The result seems to be the same.

[mcgyvr]

@davehardiman7720  I highly suspect P&G will cease to function when your Inventor license runs out but I think the point that @JDMather  was trying to make (and I could be wrong because I don't use Fusion and he will correct me if I am) but you don't need to pack and go files for them to be accessible to fusion. That article you probably found just uses that as the quickest way to gather all the files for a particular assembly to upload them to the cloud.

I'm fairly sure you can just upload your Inventor files (without a pack and go at all.. just upload them ALL) and then just open them in Fusion. 

[davehardiman7720 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your reply.  Yes I know I can just upload them.  The p & g was just to make it easier in collecting all of the parts together.  If you imagine many many assemblies to get into fusion and fusion needs to know what parts are in that assembly.  That is where the p & g will come in handy. Anyway thanks for all your help.

[A.Acheson]

@davehardiman7720 

Make sure your folder of content center files (nuts,bolts,etc,) remains with your collection of files of it isn’t already . In a single user application this is sometimes forgotten about as it is stored by default on the user roaming profile on the c drive. So when you ask someone else to open the assembly files the CC files are still stuck on your local c drive.

A good way to check if you think you have all files for an assembly in one path is to exit the project file and try to open the same assembly. If you get the resolve icon you have an issue.

The pack and go is a good method to get everything to the same folder path and CC files of your c drive if the option is selected. While keeping the file links preserved.

[davehardiman7720]

Thanks @A.Acheson . Yes that was exactly why I wanted to use p & g.