.ipt.dwf

[jhjr]

I was wondering if any of you could shed some light on this when I open a .ipt.dwf file in mastercam it looks like a stl not a solid. I've read you need solids (which gonna have to beg mgmt to get) but it also says you need inventor view. We have Autodesk design review is this the same thing or different software. The solid opens in design review to be viewed. Also does a .ipt.dwf have to be opened different in MC than a .ipt? Does it have to be converted back to a .ipt?

Thanks

 

 

X4 mu 3, Design review 2011 I think, might be 2010

[Todd Tracey from Fastech]

If you don't have Inventor on your PC, go to Mastercam.comSupportDownloads and under the X4 options look for the Autodesk Inventor View install. 32 or 64 bit as needed. Mastercam uses this as part of the translator to read the Autodesk files. It should help you out I believe. You should be able to import Solids w/o having the solids option.

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

The InventorView install that Todd is referring to is for reading IPT and IAM files from Inventor. If the file you have is in a DWF file, yould be able to read it in without Inventor View.

 

I'm not familiar with using the DWF (a 'drawing' format) to try to bring in solid data. It may be that the data is stored in AutoCAD's mesh format in the DWF file, so that's all we can bring it in as.

 

To get the solid across from Inventor --> Mastercam, it's better if you use the Inventor's IPT format (in which case you will need to have either Inventor or InventorView). Then you will get the solid entities.

[jhjr]

Thanks guys I'll look into it.

[jhjr]

I installed inventor view and was able to open .ipt files but files saved as .ipt.dwf open as wireframe. I don't know why engineering is saving in this format, why is there 2 different format extensions back to back? I use .dwf all the time in MCX4 & now can use .ipt but not when put together. It sucks all of the programing we do has to be done using out of scale & sometimes out of wack .dwf's. I'm trying to get access to our solid archive but is slow to come. I'll keep working on it.