Unable to open Solidwork assembly in Inventor Professional 2020

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I am trying to open a Solidworks assembly in Inventor Professional 2020 by opening the top-level SLDASM file. The import progress bar will reach five percent and Inventor will stop responding. All of the sub-assembly and part files are in the same folder as the top-level assembly. Can Inventor no longer open Solidworks assemblies or have I made a mistake?

This is the download link for the assembly I am trying to open, it is the 2020 FRC field. Clicking the link starts the download.

William Daniels

[johnsonshiue · Accepted solution]

Hi! Inventor 2020 is not yet able to open or import SWX 2020 files, since SWX 2020 was just released a few months ago. You will need to wait for Inventor 2020.3 update, which will support SWX 2020 files. In the meantime, please export the SWX files to STEP. Inventor is able to import STEP files associative or unassociatively.

Many thanks!

[Anonymous]

Thank you, I wasn't able to come across that info for some reason.

[Mark.Lancaster]

@Anonymous 

Its in the help https://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2020/ENU/?guid=GUID-AF3FF305-03D8-4C6B-BDF2-6744006BA01F