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Showing dimensions in SW from Inventor STEP file??

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Butkusrules

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How do I do it? Can I get the dimensions off of a STEP file created in Inventor 9 in SOLIDWORKS 2003??
 
You can redimension the part in SW, but cannot extract dimensional information from the part. The conversion from native Inventor file format to STEP strips out this information.

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