Friday 30 May 2014

Place Two Different Parts Lists on one Drawing

A question was raised on the Autodesk forum the other day on how to place the two different types of "Parts List" on one drawing

I thought I would make a quick video of the process.

Link to the original post:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Inventor-General/Parts-list-BOM-views/m-p/4984744#M506048

Hope this helps :-)


Lines in the view are stretched after conversion to AutoCAD DWG

Lines in the view are stretched after conversion to AutoCAD DWG

This is something that comes up after every release of Inventor  and I thought I would post the link to the fix here:

http://beinginventive.typepad.com/being-inventive/2013/01/lines-in-the-view-are-stretched-after-conversion-to-autocad-dwg.html

The biggest issue is the spline creation.

  •  Edit the  .INI file created for exporting the Inventor files to AutoCAD I have a customized file as well as a customized Template.
  •  Find the line "REPLACE SPLINE=No", change the No with Yes and save the file

 My Customized ini file:


[EXPORT SELECT OPTIONS]
AUTOCAD VERSION=AutoCAD 2010
CREATE AUTOCAD MECHANICAL=No
USE TRANSMITTAL=No
USE CUSTOMIZE=No
CUSTOMIZE FILE=C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2012\Design Data\DWG-DXF\FlatPattern.xml
CREATE LAYER GROUP=No
PARTS ONLY=No
REPLACE SPLINE=Yes
CHORD TOLERANCE=0.001000
[EXPORT PROPERTIES]
SELECTED PROPERTIES=
[EXPORT DESTINATION]
SPACE=Model
SCALING=Text
ALL SHEETS=Yes
MAPPING=MapsBest
MODEL GEOMETRY ONLY=No
EXPLODE DIMENSIONS=No
SYMBOLS ARE BLOCKED=Yes
AUTOCAD TEMPLATE=C:\DATA\TEMPLATES\Standard.dwg
DESTINATION DXF=No
USE ACI FOR ENTITIES AND LAYERS=Yes
[EXPORT LINE TYPE & LINE SCALE]
LINE TYPE FILE=C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2012\COMPATIBILITY\Support\invISO.lin
Continuous=Continuous;0.
Dashed=DASHED;0.
Dashed Space=DASHED_SPACE;0.
Long Dash Dotted=LONG_DASH_DOTTED;0.
Long Dash Double Dot=LONG_DASH_DOUBLE_DOT;0.
Long Dash Triple Dot=LONG_DASH_TRIPLE_DOT;0.
Dotted=DOTTED;0.
Chain=CHAIN;0.
Double Dash Chain=DOUBLE_DASH_CHAIN;0.
Dash Double Dot=DASH_DOUBLE_DOT;0.
Dash Dot=DASH_DOT;0.
Double Dash Dot=DOUBLE_DASH_DOT;0.
Double Dash Double Dot=DOUBLE_DASH_DOUBLE_DOT;0.
Dash Triple Dot=DASH_TRIPLE_DOT;0.
Double Dash Triple Dot=DOUBLE_DASH_TRIPLE_DOT;0.