From the course: Migrating from AutoCAD to Inventor
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Using an AutoCAD drawing as a template
From the course: Migrating from AutoCAD to Inventor
Using an AutoCAD drawing as a template
- Creating a new template inside of Inventor is very easy. But if you already have an existing AutoCAD template that your users are used to, have all of the attribute information that you're accustomed to, you can simply move that over into Inventor through a very simple process. To do this let's take an existing AutoCAD dwg file that we use as a template. We'll open it inside of Inventor. If we take a closer look at the title block we'll see our default responses to our attributes so we know that that information is there. To make a template out of it all we have to do is use the allocation option, go to Save As, Save Copy as Template, and add this to your templates collection. Another note on templates is that when you go to create a new file you might have noticed that templates are organized among English, Metric, or Mold Design. These are simply folders as we can see so we can add our own folder and place our new template inside of it. Now when we go to create a new drawing file,…
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