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Question [FTC]: Using Autodesk Inventor for FTC models

Good day,

At our school we have a license with Autodesk and get new software each year. We currently have Autodesk Inventor Professional 2013 - Educational Institution version.

We are trying to get some 3D models going of our latest FTC robot. We stopped by PTC's website and downloaded their 3D kit of parts. The files are made for Creo I guess, and are .PRT and .ASM files

When we try to open them with Inventor, we get an error and it will not continue. The error is as follows:

"Unable to convert Pro/ENGINEER or Creo Parametric file to Inventor file."

I also attached a screenshot of this error.

Does anyone know what's wrong, and/or why we cannot open these files?

Or perhaps where to get the FTC parts pre-modeled in a more neutral format, like .STP?
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