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Opening Inventor Part Files

Opening Inventor Part Files

Opening Inventor Part Files

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Hi all,

Our customer has sent us on Inventor Part files (.ipt) and we are unable to open them in Solidworks. They're using the latest version of Inventor and we're using SW2008 SP3.0

I've downloaded the latest version of Autodesk Design Review and I'm still unable to open this part. Can anyone suggest what I can do to open it bar going back to the customer and getting them to resave as a universal format.

The error messages we got are as follows:

SW: Unsupported Inventor Version

Autodesk Design Review: Your current version of Design Review does not support files of this type.

Any help appreciated.

God bless,

Phil.

RE: Opening Inventor Part Files

Can you obtain a copy of Inventor from your customer? Or purchase your own? Or use a Trial/Demo copy?

Can you post some .ipt files to see if others can open them?

cheers

RE: Opening Inventor Part Files

Phil,

Is your customer using Inventor 2009 (the latest release as of the last couple of weeks)?

If they are you will not be able to open in SW.  As expected SW will need a few more SP's (maybe SW2009 even) before they catch up with a translator for Inventor 2009.

Cheers,

Anna Wood
SW2008 SP3.0, Windows Vista SP1
IBM ThinkPad T61p, T7800, FX570M, 4 gigs of RAM
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/solidmuse
http://www.phxswug.com

RE: Opening Inventor Part Files

Design Review is for DWF files, not ipt files.
Inventor View will only allow you to view the file.

If the file was from Inventor 2008 or earlier you can download free Inventor LT from
http://labs.autodesk.com/technologies/inventor_lt/
in certain parts of the world.  Then Save Copy as Step.

I have heard that Inventor LT 2009 will be made available in the future to a wider audience on Labs.Autodesk

Should be trivial to request a *.stp if above doesn't work for you.  You can use Feature Recognition within SolidWorks to rebuild feature tree.

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