Unable to open SLDPRT in Inventor 2016

[Anonymous]

Hi Everyone,

New to the forum here, and pretty green when it comes to working with Inventor and Solidworks. 

I'm trying to import/open a sldprt file from SWX 2016 standard into Inventor 2016, and i get the error stating it's an unsupported version. I've done the update 1 for inventor. Previous to the update, the error popping up was invalid file type.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[wilkhui]

Hi - are you able to share your model? Please send me a private message if not.

The Inventor and SWX years differ so I'd expect Inventor 2017 can open your file, I can do that for you and send you back a file that you can open in your version of Inventor.

Cheers,

Indy

[Mark.Lancaster · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous

Welcome to the community...

Inventor 2016 is unable to open SW 2016 parts.. Rule..  Inventor is 1 yr behind..  So you can only open SW 2015 parts or go to Inventor 2017.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Mark for the Tip. We upgraded to Inventor 2017 and can open the 2016 sldprt files without any issues.

[Anonymous]

Hello. I need help badly.  I have a file a customer sent me.  Its an SLDPRT file and when I open it nothing shows up, but then a notepad opens with code? Please help I am going to loose this contract if I can not work on it this weekend 6/2/2017

[JDMather]

What version of Inventor (including Service Pack)?

What version of SolidWorks?

What is the size of the file?

Can you attach it here?

[Anonymous]

I have Autodesk Inventor HSM 2015.  It will only allow me to upload 3 files.  I have more if I am able to email you the file?

[Anonymous]

[JDMather]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I have Autodesk Inventor HSM 2015.  It will only allow me to upload 3 files.  I have more if I am able to email you the file?

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You can right click on folder containing all files and select Send to Compressed (zipped) Folder and then attach the resulting single *.zip file.

You should be aware that this is a public forum, so if the files are proprietary - do not attach them here.

The files were created in SolidWorks 2015 - so you would need Inventor 2016 to convert them.

I think you could convert them through https://myhub.autodesk360.com/ , but not sure about that - give it a try.

(convert to STEP *.stp to open in Inventor 2015)

You will be out of luck for drawing files (*.slddrw).