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Good Day ! I am using Inventor 2018. I want to know the difference between inventor drawing extension idw and dwg. When I do "save as" I come up with 2 options within inventor drawing one is .idw and another is .dwg and there is also option of AutoCAD dwg. How do these extension differ and whats their functionality ? I know idw for inventor and dwg for AutoCAD but inventor drawing with dwg extension is confusing.
Off late, I have to download many commercial items from web to represent in AutoCAD drawings. But download are in step files. So I make inventor model and create dummy drawing and import to autoCAD. Is the inventor dwg doing same thing in fewer steps ? see the screenshot attached.
Thanks for the links. Will read through. just started a little bit where it says dwg is bigger in file size as it has functionalities. and can be shared across others as most ppl don't or may not have inventor. Will go through all.
One issue with saving them as dwgs is when you open them through file explorer they'll open in Autocad instead of Inventor natively. The only real reason I can think of is to have the ability of other users who have Autocad and not Inventor to view and edit the files, but this causes other issues down the line since opening and editing an Inventor drawing in Autocad and going back to Inventor can break some stuff. I recommend using idws and only editing the drawings in Inventor and if someone wants to view them they should either get Inventor View (Inventor Read-Only in 2020 version) or export your drawings as pdfs.
Hi! It is not true saving a drawing to Inventor dwg will lead to opening in AutoCAD by default. It depends on your default DWG file open setting. You should set it to Autodesk DWG Launcher, instead of AutoCAD. If it is set to Autodesk DWG Launcher, the Windows will open the dwg file based on last saved application (either Inventor or AutoCAD).
Like Xun and other experts already mentioned, this is not a new topic. In fact, it has been discussed for almost 10 years. Inventor dwg and idw are the same in terms of Inventor drawing objects. Saving as Inventor dwg allows you to open it in AutoCAD without having to go through export. Also, you can easily use an AutoCAD dwg template containing existing AutoCAD blocks and styles you already created.
Another option to consider is to use AutoCAD to document Inventor components. AutoCAD is capable of creating associative drawing views to Inventor components. The command is called VIEWBASE. You can find more information on Autodesk Knowledge Network.
I am in same boat as you. Came across this recently. Maybe I never needed to, so never saw that even though it existed. The need for query was to reduce amount of steps to convert inventor model to AutoCAD.
Thanks for your help. It helped me in understanding the need to use both extension. Will use it accordingly. Haven't come across this option as never needed to. So use dwg only if you have to share with non inventor recipient. File size can be larger for dwg. One last thing to ask is, if I create new drawing in dwg and use viewbase to get model, how do I project view off that ? If the viewbase is not what I want to use, can I rotate using viewcube like inventor idw ? Also, can I lock a view in inventor model as base view so when I use viewbase command, I can choose that particular view ?
Well if that's all you need, just save as -> save copy as -> .dxf extension. DXF's are the bees knees when it comes to exporting inventor drawings to AutoCAD, I find it to be the least troublesome method.
I have been trying to replace a base view with Replace model reference but as soon as I press the command inventor hangs and nothing works. I have to press escape to get inventor to work again except for the replace model reference button.
Hi! Usually this means Inventor have trouble removing or reattaching certain annotation objects. Or, the new assembly cannot create the views properly. One thing to try is to copy the existing sheet and paste it to a new drawing. Then do the Replace Model Reference workflow. Does it work now?
Hi! This sounds like a file-specific behavior. Please share the files in zip with me directly johnso...@autodesk.com. I would like to understand the behavior better. In the meantime, please install 2023.2.1 update.
Hi, has this issue been resolved? I am having the issues on inventor pro 2022. Tried different drawings and it does it on every drawing. Tried rebooting, even did an update to inventor 2022.4.1 and rebooted and still doing the same thing.
Hi! The behavior was file specific. If possible, please share the files in zip with me directly johnso...@autodesk.com. I can take a look to understand the behavior better. Your issue may not be the same as the others.
I have same problem, and i solved it. i have two monitors with laptop. just re-setup lap top monitor as main control monitor, then the pop up "replace model reference " box will show up. it is not inventor problem. it is "replace dodel reference" box "hidden" outside of monitor.
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@johnsonshiue, I just want to let you know that this does not seem to be an isolated file corruption issue. I have the exact same problem as @william (sketch blocks that cannot be deleted and ghost sketches that remain in the file after being deleted). This appears to be a bug related to the use of sketch blocks. If I copy one of the blocks from the original file to a new empty file, the ghost sketches appear in the new file, and the block that I just added cannot be deleted.
If you're able to investigate this bug, that would be extremely helpful; in this case, I have a very large multibody part that will take me days to rebuild, and I have no reason to believe the problem won't happen again if I continue to use blocks.
Absolutely, this is a bug. Any unusual or unreasonable behavior is a bug. But, what can be done with the bug depends on the severity and if the reproducible steps exist. Were you able to reproduce the behavior?
If it would help, I can post the affected file. I don't think it will be possible for me to replicate the exact steps that caused the problem. A new file with new blocks works fine; the problem didn't occur until I had been working with the file for weeks, and there's no way for me to know exactly when it started. However, the problem is reproduced in an empty part file if you copy one of the "undeletable" blocks into the file, which presumably means that the problem is related to the data of that particular block object. Hopefully you can learn something about the cause (or at least the mechanism) of the problem by looking at the data for the blocks in the part file?
As far as severity of the problem is concerned, I can't speak for other customers, but it's very severe for me. I use sketch blocks extensively for top-down design, and it's a big problem if a file that represents weeks or months of work can be corrupted for no apparent reason, forcing me to remodel it from scratch.
I suspect this is a corruption case. There was another customer reporting the same thing. He mentioned that he used multi-solid body workflows extensively. So far we are not yet able to reproduce the corruption besides the already corrupted cases.
Many thanks for sharing the rule! I will mark it as a solution for now. However, it does not solve the underlying corruption. If you know how to reproduce it from scratch, please let me know asap. I would like to understand the workflow leading to this corruption case.
The Sketch Block folder contains the Sketch Block definitions. If there are instances of the Sketch Block in any sketch, the definition cannot be deleted. Is this what you are talking about? If not, please share an example here. I would like to take a closer look.
This is pretty straight forward. Just go to the browser and enable iLogic browser -> right-click on it -> New Rule. Or, go to Manage -> iLogic -> Add Rule. After that, just copy and paste the rule here. Run the rule.
BTW, iLogic isn't just for the 2%. It is quite popular right now. It may seem overwhelming at the beginning but you will find it very easy to use. Certainly, if you want to do advanced level automation, it will require good programming skills and good understanding of Inventor API.
Thank you; This is more than I knew. I hear it's popular, but still very few people know how to use it. (I've worked with about 40 inventor users, none of them knew how to use it, so 0:40 tells me less than 2% can; this is how I come up with my estimate)
Hi! I thought my instruction was pretty clear. Anyway, here is a basic iLogic tutorial. I am not an iLogic expert either. But, I learn by using it. Please take a look. Please also help inform the 40 Inventor users about the tutorial. Hopefully, it will help them start using iLogic quickly.
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