general question about working w multiple formats

Hi,

a client of us has got autdesk inventor 5.3 and showed me some
problems on a drawing. I have investigated that there is a part of the
drawing that has been supplied by someone else and which has been
imported from a foreign format (step).
The client says: inventor has to work with foreign standard formats,
if not it is an error on the product
The vendor (of inventor) says: you have to work on foreign parts. It
is normal that if you import parts from another format you lose some
information and generally you cannot expect them to work without doing
anything.

could someone explain me the general situation about working with
multiple (standard) formats?

Thanks
Josef

 

Your vendor is right. Your client is either ignorant of the facts or is just
trying to put it on you. Converting files across formats is a give and take
situation.. You both have to work together to work out file formats, styles,
ect.

 

No, Tom, your expectations are not low. I have dealt with a number of
formats into and out of a number of programs and there is no guarantee.