This means that you can share your drawing with someone who does not have Inventor. You can quickly set the record straight, by right clicking on the file, choosing “Open with” and setting AutoCAD DWG Launcher as the default program.Ĭonsideration 2 – Inventor DWG’s in AutoCAD:Īn Inventor DWG file can be opened very easily in AutoCAD, as well as in DWG TrueView. Have to worry about using the wrong application when double clicking on a random DWG file. Moving over to DWG’s is logical and easy, for several reasons:ġ) Inventor DWG’s can be opened by Native AutoCAD, this means you can collaborate very easilyĢ) Inventor DWG’s are partly read only in AutoCAD, you can’t change the geometry, but you can add dimensions and you can draw on top of the geometry displayedģ) The Inventor DWG format has additional functionality, like the ability to insert DWG blocks amongst other things.Ĥ) You can quickly convert all of your IDW’s to Inventor DWG format by doing a file “save as”ĥ) You can use the Inventor Task Scheduler to batch convert your IDW files to DWG’s, for help with this,Ħ) The AutoCAD DWG Launcher understands the difference between an AutoCAD DWG and an Inventor DWG, so you don’t The IDW format is maintained by Autodesk for this reason. The IDW format was the original Inventor drawing format, way back in the early days when Inventor was unable to create DWG’s.
The additional functionality of the Inventor DWG makes it much more versatile. Because DWG files have additional functionality built in, they are sometimes slightly bigger in file size.īut there is Absolutely no need to use IDW files any more.
There seems to be a lot of mis-information and confusion around, so I would like to debunk the myths, and separate some facts from fiction.ġ) They always have, and have never thought of moving to DWGĢ) There is concern over Confusion between AutoCAD and Inventor DWG’s (see point 6 below)ģ) IDW’s can be smaller. I get asked a lot of questions about Inventor drawings an AutoCAD, and the Inventor DWG file format.
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