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Import AutoCAD data

Import AutoCAD data - Inventor Tutorial

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Import AutoCAD data

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We're now going to look at another way we can create geometry. Up to this point in the course, any time we needed sketch geometry, we simply drew it ourselves, but many of you may be coming to Inventor from AutoCAD, and may be thinking to yourself "Well, I don't want to recreate the geometry, "I've been creating it for years in AutoCAD." So we're going to look at how we can import that geometry and use shared sketches to create Inventor models from AutoCAD data. To do that you need to start with a part file, which I have on the screen, and you need to start a new sketch, as if you were going to draw the geometry yourself, so we'll right-click and select New Sketch, and we'll select a plane to sketch on. Now that we're in the sketch environment, we could go about our geometry creation by using the tools in the Create panel to draw our geometry, but, as I mentioned, we're going to import AutoCAD geometry, and to do that we can go to the Sketch tab under the Insert panel and select ACAD…

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