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Cannot edit DWG files from Inventor in AutoCAD.

The DWG drawing sheets save from Inventor behave as noneditable blocks - how to edit them?

There are two ways for saving DWG files from Inventor.

When you just use DWG (instead of IDW) as the default format for your Inventor drawing sheets, Inventor saves its part objects as blocks (to keep the associativity). Such DWG files are not intended to be heavily edited in AutoCAD (the TrueConnect functionality).

If you want a copy (no more associative to the 3D model) of your Inventor drawing sheet to be edited in AutoCAD (or LT) as AutoCAD entities, use the "Save Copy As" command (I > Save as > Save copy as) in your drawing sheet and save your sheet as "AutoCAD Drawing (DWG)". Such DWG files use layer and style mappings to display plain AutoCAD entities the same way as in Inventor.

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applies to: Inventor 2010 · Inventor 2009 · Inventor 2008 · AutoCAD · AutoCAD LT ·

See also:
Tip 7042:	List of inspection dimensions in the Inventor drawing.
Tip 6922:	Product codes (registry) of Autodesk CAD applications.
Tip 6811:	VIX, ISP, DVG files in AutoCAD
Tip 6779:	How to change the default drawing sheet in Inventor?
Tip 6633:	What is the .ADSK file format used in Inventor or Revit?

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