Importing Inventor assembly

Hi there

Can any one please explain to me how I can successfully open an
Inventor assembly file (.IAM) in Solidworks. Also do the constraints
stay intact or will I have to do something like re-constaining the
assembly in solidworks.

Any help would be really appreciated

Thanks in advance
Allan

 

I don't know inventor. However, I think your only

If neutral translations are going to be used; I'd ask for STEP if for no
other reasons than ACIS flattens the assembly hierarchy and will create a
discrete "part" for every solid body in the assembly; e.g. if you have
several hundred instances of a bolt you'll get several hundred parts vs.
one part placed several hundred times. (At least, I believe that's the way
it works. Seems I've read that the latest version of ACIS at least
supports sub-assemblies, so might only be the older ACIS versions, too,
which is what Inventor uses. If you ever write out an ACIS for IV usage;
roll the version back to v6 or 7 so they don't have to download a HOOPS
viewer, etc. to convert it. They'll appreciate it. <G> )