What happens to my AutoCAD data in an Inventor Drawings (.dwg) file?
AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor create their own objects in the same .dwg file. For example, open an Autodesk Inventor Drawing (*.dwg) in AutoCAD and create some AutoCAD geometry (such as lines, arcs, and circles) on one of the sheets and save the file. Open the file with Autodesk Inventor and the geometry appears just as it did in AutoCAD. Certain objects, including layers, blocks, styles, line types, sheet names and sheet sizes can be edited in both applications. For example, you can edit a layer and change the line type from an Autodesk Inventor line type to an AutoCAD line type. When reopened in Autodesk Inventor, the Autodesk Inventor layer will still use the AutoCAD line type. AutoCAD blocks are the same in AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor. The blocks display in Autodesk Inventor exactly as they do in AutoCAD. You can place blocks in both AutoCAD and Inventor, but you cannot create or edit block definitions in Autodesk Inventor. What happens to my Inventor data in AutoCAD? When you cr
