Importing AutoCAD data and sharing sketches

- We're now gonna look at another way…we can create geometry.…Up to this point in the course,…anytime 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 wanna re-create…the geometry,…I've been creating it for years in AutoCAD."…So we're gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna import AutoCAD geometry.…To do that, we can go to the Sketch tab…under the Insert panel and select ACAD or AutoCAD.…Doing that will being up a dialogue box…