AutoCAD .dwt to Inventor .dwg

[blounsbury147035]

Hi,

First, let me say that I am new to AutoCAD and the forums. I recently my first "real" job where AutoCAD has been used for over 20yrs and the drawing template is well established. I convinced my boss to move me into 3D, since this is what I am more familiar with. Problem is: How do I get the AutoCAD template into an Inventor template. I've tried the help menu method of opening the AutoCAD template and creating new styles and modifying the objects. However, it doesn't look very good when printed and the position of the border does not line up with the default manilla colored Inventor drawing region. I then tried to open the AutoCAD template using the import function, which actually works much better. The template is imported as a sketched symbol and it retains our title block property fields which fill in the project name and peoples signatures, etc. However, the sketch symbol also does not line up with the default manilla colored Inventor drawing region and if I try to edit the symbol I can't select this drawing region so that the lines match it.

Anyways, before I go on further, I can't be the first person who has needed to use AutoCAD templates in Inventor. So, how are people doing this? There must be an easier way.

Hopefully, I posted to the correct group.

Thanks,
Bob

[jonathan.landeros]

Hi,

First, let me say that I am new to AutoCAD and the forums. I recently my first "real" job where AutoCAD has been used for over 20yrs and the drawing template is well established. I convinced my boss to move me into 3D, since this is what I am more familiar with. Problem is: How do I get the AutoCAD template into an Inventor template. I've tried the help menu method of opening the AutoCAD template and creating new styles and modifying the objects. However, it doesn't look very good when printed and the position of the border does not line up with the default manilla colored Inventor drawing region. I then tried to open the AutoCAD template using the import function, which actually works much better. The template is imported as a sketched symbol and it retains our title block property fields which fill in the project name and peoples signatures, etc. However, the sketch symbol also does not line up with the default manilla colored Inventor drawing region and if I try to edit the symbol I can't select this drawing region so that the lines match it.

Anyways, before I go on further, I can't be the first person who has needed to use AutoCAD templates in Inventor. So, how are people doing this? There must be an easier way.

Hopefully, I posted to the correct group.

Thanks,
Bob

One thought, have you tried double checking the page setup and making sure that the print isn't shifting? I don't want to over simplify it, but I know I've been tripped up by not checking the simple stuff.

The other thing that comes to mind is the possibilty that the geometry is a little off center in the ACAD drawing.

One simple trick I've used. Open up the ACAD file and add some crop marks at the outer most corners of the page. I've used this to get the page to line up correctly. Just to be sure, I'd put the lower left mark at 0,0.

Hope this helps!