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Question [FTC]: Using Autodesk Inventor for FTC models

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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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Re: [FTC]: Using Autodesk Inventor for FTC models

I ran into the same issue trying to bring those parts into Solidworks

Maybe there's some sort of converter software needed?
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Re: [FTC]: Using Autodesk Inventor for FTC models

You can find a lot of FTC parts here if you poke around a bit here. You can configure it to download Inventor part files but I haven't had the best experience doing that so I just usually grab the STP file.
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Re: [FTC]: Using Autodesk Inventor for FTC models

Funny, I was just over at 3D Content Central before I came back to check on this. Searching "FTC" there will get you a decent amount of stuff, as will "tetrix" as you suggested. Good stuff, thank you!
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You can find a lot of FTC parts here if you poke around a bit here. You can configure it to download Inventor part files but I haven't had the best experience doing that so I just usually grab the STP file.
Watch out for some of those though, I ran across some Tetrix rail pieces that had an incorrect hole pattern. You may want to check that they are correct before using them for critical design.
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Re: [FTC]: Using Autodesk Inventor for FTC models

I have an outdated library formated for 2012, you simply import the parts and save them to 2013 whenever you save.

http://ge.tt/5hscqpb/v/0

Give that a go.

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