As many of us are all aware the Autodesk Inventor product line comes with many great translators. We have found many companies today are switching to Autodesk Inventor as a primary design tool because of the powerful translators that allow them to import and export data from the so called high end systems. At the same time giving them the functionality these high end systems have at a much lower operating expense. With this comes the need to translate this data all at once or a batch process. Autodesk Inventor Task Scheduler allows us to batch process this data immediately or at a scheduled time. Lets take a look at the process and the file types Task Scheduler allows us to import and export.
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Autodesk Inventor Translators - Batch Import and Export
Created by one of the Cad Geeks
One of the lesser know file types that you can work with inside of Inventor is PCB translater files. These include files of .brd, .emn, .bdf, and .idb.
It is a very simple process to bring the files in and create either a part file or an assembly file.
You have the ability to edit this information also after bringing it into Inventor as well.
Enjoy,
Jim.......Another INCAT CAD Geek!
When working with translated data you may have to perform changes to that data or may have to remodel it since it can’t easily be changed. Autodesk Labs to the rescu
e!!! Feature Recognition allows you to take translated data and create a basic history tree. The history tree will include a base sketch, fillets, chamfers, extruded and revolved features, shell and sweep features and sculpt features. They say on the website it works with neutral cad formats like step, sat and iges but I found it works with solid works data and have not tested any other formats at this time.
Check out my video of how to do this.
http://screencast.com/t/zZv4NGHQ
Submitted by Dave of the INCAT CAD Geeks
