import autocad object into inventor

[salsero]

Good morning, everyone.

I write to you because I am encountering not a few difficulties in the parallel use of inventor and autocad.

I understand better... for my projects I need to make a virtual assembly and give mechanical constraints, so as to verify the a priori operation of true assembly.

In my case I have to bind trees with relative plates to the ends that through holes that transmit motion through rods to an identical mechanism on the other side of the assembly.

I have drawn all the details both as plant 2d quoted etc and as extruded 3d.

I would now like to import the extruded object or at least design 2d within inventor to realize the aforementioned assembly and then give mechanical constraints but I can't do anything. ..can you please indicate a procedure to import autocad designs to inventor and then work on it?

 

[GianniM]

inventor is a very different program from autocad. the previous knowledge in autocad is not useful, and indeed, they distract from the actual method of use. Do you know how to use inventor?se si, clarify the problem better. in environment together it is possible to import autocad objects, what problem do you have exactly?se no, then need to learn the program from scratch, because knowing autocad is not enough to use inventor.

 

[salsero]

I have always used only autocads, hoping to find easier integration between the two programs.
Also because I looked at tutorials on youtube and obviously they work at me no..comanywhere I will see to use autocad

 

[Zac69]

enter the sketch of a mo part of a set, open the design with autocad, copy/paste into the sketch and save what you copied as a block. make as many blocks as the dwg to import. At the end you put them in the sketch with the 2d constraints and do the evidence you need in 2d.
Hi.

 

[batstar]

autocad and inventor are of the same family and would assume that they can dialogue without problems, but the reality is very different, unfortunately inventor was not conceived by those who made autocad!

 

[Catafratto]

autocad and inventor are of the same family and would assume that they can dialogue without problems, but the reality is very different, unfortunately inventor was not conceived by those who made autocad!

It's a bit like complaining that the blender doesn't dialogue with the kitchen robot: They're too different. the advice of zac69 is great and fast. inventor is not a program that opens and uses without even knowing what differences he has from autocad.

 

[batstar]

zac board is definitely great, but for a accustomed to moving in autocad it is not so simple to work in the sketch of inventor that is one of the least successful things of the program.

 

[Zac69]

zac board is definitely great, but for a accustomed to moving in autocad it is not so simple to work in the sketch of inventor that is one of the least successful things of the program.

It's easier than you think. think of who passed from the tecnigraph to a pc with autocad over...

 

[Zac69]

zac board is definitely great, but for a accustomed to moving in autocad it is not so simple to work in the sketch of inventor that is one of the least successful things of the program.

or, since you know autocad, you do the blocks directly in autocad, then go to the parametric part of autocad (which is basically the sketch of inventor but more complex) and do the tests of handling

 

[batstar]

It's easier than you think. think of who passed from the tecnigraph to a pc with autocad over...

I did not say in the true sense of learning difficulties, indeed, one that uses autocad switching to inventor is very simple (it also has many less commands), it is precisely the same interface of the sketch that is to say little irritating.

 

[salsero]

Sorry I didn't show up, but this was an epic week. . Then yesterday I put myself and managed to import the drawings2d into inventor and extrude them on inventor.
Oh, my God, or tomorrow I throw them all in and try to do the experiments with the constraints... I read that in the autocad functions there is also the parametric part that allows to assemble and try to do the handling tests that serve me...

I didn't even know it existed.as I always and only designed in 2d. Could you please explain to me how to use the parametric mode and put wins?

 

[Zac69]

Sorry I didn't show up, but this was an epic week. . Then yesterday I put myself and managed to import the drawings2d into inventor and extrude them on inventor.
Oh, my God, or tomorrow I throw them all in and try to do the experiments with the constraints... I read that in the autocad functions there is also the parametric part that allows to assemble and try to do the handling tests that serve me...

I didn't even know it existed.as I always and only designed in 2d. Could you please explain to me how to use the parametric mode and put wins?

more or less like in inventor (if you look they also have the same symbols).