Sending an Assembly to an Older Version of Inventor

[billjenkins]

I use Inventor 2009 Pro and I have a friend that uses the 2008 version of Inventor. Can I send him an assembly that he can open or can I only send individual parts in a STEP extension or any other extension that you may suggest?

Note: JD explained how to use Pack & Go so I know how to do that.

Thanks,

Bill

[Mark.Lancaster]

INventor is not backwards compatible.    So either export the entire assembly as a STEP file or you can do the individual files as STEP.  It all depends on what you friend needs.

[JDMather · Accepted solution]

You do not use Pack and Go for this.

Open the Assembly.

Save Copy as type STEP (*.stp)

They will get the assembly parts and all, but no assembly constraints, no feature tree, no Dynamic Simulation stuff.

Just parts and assembly.