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    Question Importing AutoCAD 2D drawings into an Inventor drawing file

    We have been asked by one of our clients to take their 2D AutoCAD drawings and bring them into Inventor as 2D drawings. The AutoCAD files are all full size in model space, title blocks are scaled up to fit the drawing. I can copy and paste the drawings as a sketch in and Inventor drawing but can not scale it to fit a standard drawing format. Can anyone tell me if it is possible?

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    Default Re: Importing AutoCAD 2D drawings into an Inventor drawing file

    Quote Originally Posted by jimmy.long View Post
    We have been asked by one of our clients to take their 2D AutoCAD drawings and bring them into Inventor as 2D drawings. The AutoCAD files are all full size in model space, title blocks are scaled up to fit the drawing.
    No offence to your client, but this seems typical of many AutoCAD users, they are either too lazy, or too enept to use the paperspace layout and scale the viewport to suit the page.
    My suggestion is; Do it right first time, every time.
    Open the file in Inventor *.ipt, and get rid of the title block.
    Create an inventor *.idw (with their titleblock if necessary) and place the "Base View" drawing into the page as normal. (Scaled to suit your needs)

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    Default Re: Importing AutoCAD 2D drawings into an Inventor drawing file

    Quote Originally Posted by Rob_V View Post
    No offence to your client, but this seems typical of many AutoCAD users, they are either too lazy, or too enept to use the paperspace layout and scale the viewport to suit the page.
    It may be that the client has legacy drawings dating back to pre-paperspace days.

    However you do have a point if they are recent drawings.

    I wouldn't be so hard on Autocad users who don't comply with the Paperspace way of doing things as for many it can be challenging to understand the concept. Those of us who do use Paperspace tend to take a lot of things for granted and easily forget the early transitions from working in Model space to using Paperspace, particularly the mindset change if you had spent the previous 8 years working purely in model space!.

    So dont be too quick to judge!

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    Default Re: Importing AutoCAD 2D drawings into an Inventor drawing file

    I totally agree having used Autocad since the early 80's it wasn't until a couple of years ago I started using paper space properly & now I have mainly migrated to Inventor. Being a contractor you have to adapt to the Clients ways of working so often have to use Autocads of various versions & then Radan Cad & back to Inventor - can get very confusing! Thank goodness I'm now with a mainly Inventor user.

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