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About Importing Autodesk Inventor Models
The File Open dialog box provides the Import and Open options for Autodesk Inventor part and assembly models with Open as the default option. You can import part and assembly models to Creo or open them as non-Creo models using Creo Unite with the Creo Collaboration Extension for Inventor license.
The import of Autodesk Inventor parts and assemblies includes the following data:
The B-rep geometry of parts and assemblies
Product structures
The default, user-defined, and reference datum features such as planes, points, axes, coordinate systems, and curves with datum tags
B-rep solids
Quilts
Exact surfaces and edges
Wire-body datum curves of parts and assemblies
The colors of parts, assembly components, and faces
Multibodies
Part and assembly level default and user-defined parameters
Assembly-level features such as holes and cuts
Model units
The visibility states of part and assembly-level objects and components
Autodesk Inventor part (*.ipt) files import as parts or assemblies. Autodesk Inventor assembly (*.iam) files import as assemblies. Multiple solid bodies or parts with mulitbodies also import as assemblies to Creo. Quilts, surfaces, and assembly structures import as solid geometry. The components of assemblies also import as solids. The datum features of part and assembly models are imported with proper placement and scaling applied. They retain their appropriate locations in the imported part and assembly models. You can import wire body datum curves from Inventor part and assembly models. The wire body curves contain wireframe curves.
Autodesk Inventor assemblies and components can include assembly-level features such as cuts, holes, patterns, and move faces. The components that are intersected by the holes and cuts from the source CAD system are embedded in the Autodesk Inventor TIM assemblies after import. The import features of the Autodesk Inventor TIM assemblies contain the assembly-level features.
The visibility states of the part and assembly-level objects and components are retained during the import. For example, entities such as datum features and quilts or components with a hidden status do not appear in the imported part and assembly models.
The following types of default and user-defined model parameters are imported:
String type parameters such as length, diameter, depth, breadth, distance, quantity, and material name
Boolean type parameters
Real type parameters mapped to appropriate units with proper values
Autodesk Inventor supports Associative Topology Bus (ATB), but the selective import of Autodesk Inventor assemblies is not supported. For more information on ATB, see the Help on Associative Topology Bus.
You can create and use the format-specific Inventor profiles for the import and append tasks. Import log files are automatically generated in the working directory when the import is complete.
If the Autodesk Inventor part and assembly files are located on Windchill servers, you can download them to your workspace or commonspace as CAD documents. You can then open them in the Windchill connected mode of Creo.