Solidworks to Inventor

Probably a dumb question, but;

Is there any way to take solidworks part files, and bring them into
Inventor, and still retain some sort of history/parametric data? I am
unfamiliar with Inventor, and the Inventor user wants to be able to
modify some of my solidworks files.

P.S. I don't want to hear no Spaceclaim propaganda, because that is
out of the question for now.

 

No.

It is 3D CAD industry practice to make sure that history is not portable
between systems. Geometry frequently is, but not history/features. It is
also frequently true that 3D CAD files are frequently not backwards
compatible within a given vendor's system.

TOP

 

It's NOT "industry practice to make sure that history is not portable";
the issue is that each system has different options & capabilities and
therefore no two could possibly have the same history.
The very best one might do is to "reconstruct" a "fake" history
on system two IF the order of the entities in the part file never
got changed (even by translation software or kernel software) and they
are ALL still there. And that fake history would only apply directly to
those specific entities.
So what would be the point?

 

Well shucks, then maybe you need to try out the new Solidedge with
Synchronous Technologies then or perhaps UG with the same thing. ;-)

As TOP said, no one offers direct import into other systems and maintain
the history.

 

Thanks guys!

I am just a surface modeler, hence the dumb parametric question. I
would much rather fill holes in faces and rebuild things my own way
anyway... Keep the parametrics far away from me. Unfortunately I got
roped into a project with the engineers.

 

Then he should use solidworks to modify with.

Bob

 

Yes Autodesk Labs created a program add in for Inventor that allows
you to drag and drop Solid Works Files directly into Inventor it works
pretty good all the features are recofnized...it may be called Feature
Recognition for Inventor or it may be something for Solid Works alone
I have the program downloaded somewhere and could send it to you if
you let me know where. Go to www.autodeslabs.com and search for it
there. You can also use it for step files and iges files and it will
recognize all of the feature in those also so your not stuck with a
dummy part...
Jason