Defacto Drawing Standard
Defacto Drawing Standard
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We are currently wrestling with the idea of moving to inventor. One problem is that our customers all want .dwg drawing files as this is the defacto standard.
Does this cause any problems with inventor? Does it still output to .dwg? Does anyone know if .dwg will supported indefinitely?
Does this cause any problems with inventor? Does it still output to .dwg? Does anyone know if .dwg will supported indefinitely?





RE: Defacto Drawing Standard
The work arround is do all your work in the native .iwg file format and on completion of project/part or when required by the client to safe a copy to .dwg file format.
RE: Defacto Drawing Standard
RE: Defacto Drawing Standard
I am now using Inventor after 4 years on Solidworks and hav already found the the export of inventor drawings is rather poor. I was able to much more seamlessly export .dwg from Solidworks than I am from Inventor...not overly excited about that with Inventor being and Autodesk Company???
Alan M. Etzkorn

Product Engineer
Nixon Tool Co.
www.nixontool.com
RE: Defacto Drawing Standard
We were able to get around the export problem by printing the file to the Acrobat PDF driver. This plotted and scaled easily on both standard A-size as well as large format on a Designjet plotter.
FWIW, I'm a neophyte Alibre user and have not had any problems exporting drawings from it to DWG formats. Seems kind of odd that Adesk would have this sort of problem. Isn't DWG their creation?
Mike
RE: Defacto Drawing Standard
The .dwg out from Inventor .idw is GREATLY improved too. I'm not a big fan of Autodesk's marketing scheme, but I think this release is worth the $$$ (finally)
Far too many other new features to mention here. There is some good stuff though. Go to the Autodesk site for a complete list to see if you can live without it.