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How to save a .3DS file from Inventor?

In Autodesk Inventor export your 3D data to a .SAT format file (File - Save copy). Read this file into Mechanical Desktop (a part of Inventor Series) with the _ACISIN command and re-export it with the _3DSOUT command to a 3DS file.

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