Inventor/AutoCAD 2010
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Topic: Inventor/AutoCAD 2010
Posted By: tulip3D
Subject: Inventor/AutoCAD 2010
Date Posted: 23.Jul.2009 at 19:54
| I cannot edit an AutoCAD dwg made with Inventor. why, and how do i get around this? |
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Posted By: Vladimir Michl
Date Posted: 23.Jul.2009 at 21:39
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There are two ways for saving DWGs from Inventor.
When you use DWG (instead of IDW) for your Inventor drawing sheets, Inventor saves its part objects as blocks (to keep associativity). Such DWG files are not intended to be heavily edited in AutoCAD (TrueConnect).
If you want a copy of your Inventor drawing sheet to be edited in AutoCAD as AutoCAD entities, use the Save Copy As command and save your drawing sheet as "DWG for AutoCAD". Such files use layer and style mappings to display plain AutoCAD entities the same way as in Inventor. ------------- Vladimir Michl (moderator) ARKANCE - https://arkance.world" rel="nofollow - https://arkance.world - Autodesk Platinum Partner |
Posted By: tulip3D
Date Posted: 23.Jul.2009 at 22:02
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The only 'Save as type' i can save as is 'Inventor Drawing Files (*.dwg)
The option you speak of is not availble
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Posted By: Vladimir Michl
Date Posted: 23.Jul.2009 at 22:09
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No, you should use Save copy as - see the tip:
http://www.cadforum.cz/cadforum_en/cannot-edit-dwg-files-from-inventor-in-autocad-tip6816 - http://www.cadforum.cz/cadforum_en/cannot-edit-dwg-files-from-inventor-in-autocad-tip6816 ------------- Vladimir Michl (moderator) ARKANCE - https://arkance.world" rel="nofollow - https://arkance.world - Autodesk Platinum Partner |
Posted By: tulip3D
Date Posted: 23.Jul.2009 at 22:10
Ah-Ha!! I got it! 
apparently I need to type 'group' into the command line, then remove all geometry from the group.
Thanks! This forum is great!!
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