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Posted by Elaine Anselm.

Engineer on team #191, X-Cats, from Jos Wilson High School and Xerox.

Posted on 1/28/2000 8:17 AM MST


In Reply to: Re: AutoCad compatibility posted by Andres Teene on 1/27/2000 3:39 PM MST:



I posted a note out on the Kinetix webboard and got the response below - you cannot directly translate between Inventor and 3D Studio MAX. There was an interesting response to that post which I have also included below.
One thing about Inventor is that it is amazingly easy to learn. We have kids who have not used CAD before November up on it doing very sophisticated drawings. We are doing the subsystem designs and are attempting a big picture integration using Inventor. The students are doing all of it.

Wish the tranlation to MAX were as straight forward.

'Product Support' wrote in message
news:51092.13474@support.ktx.com...
> Hi Elaine,
>
> There is no direct export into 3DSMAX from Inventor.
>
> If you're lucky enough to have AutoCAD, you'll have to bring the file
into AutoCAD, and out of AutoCAD.
>
> I believe that Inventor can create an .SAT file for AutoCAD, and that
from AutoCAD you create the .DWG for 3DSMAX.
>
> Regards,
>
> Nik


Ok Nik, Let me get this straight, You've given a bunch of students Inventor
and Max3, They are told to use these tools in the FIRST competition. There
is no way to communicate an inventor file into max3 so there solid designs
that are created in Inventor need to be re-created in max3????

What are you trying to do to these kids? the competition is about robotics
not about the difficulties of file translation. They'll learn that when
they
get their first engineering job. Maybe discreet* better get a couple of
developers going on a ACIS (.sat) plugin for max...

In the meantime maybe autodesk should setup an online translation service
for these kids or be prepared to wash mucho eggo from corporate faces.....