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Saqibiqbal1-Visitor
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February 6, 2020
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Switching from Inventor to Creo

  • February 6, 2020
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Hello All, i am 100% new to this form and creo systems too, my company is switching to Creo from Inventor and we got hundreds of thousands of parts designed in inventor system and now we want to move them to creo system. Why i am here? I would like to ask you all that is there any way to keep the features and constraints in assembly/parts in inventor when we move them to Creo? Making step files lost all constraints and features.

 

Thanks in advance.

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BenLoosli23-Emerald III
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February 6, 2020

Not possible!

STEP transfer of the model and DXF transfer of the drawings are the only options without going the "custom transfer" route.  The "custom transfer" usually involves low-paid students to remodel and create new drawings in Creo from your Inventor data.

When we switched from Unigraphics V18 to Wildfire, we limited the Wildfire usage to new product designs and maintained the existing designs in UG. Over the years, we eventually got most of the designs 'converted'. Just in time to be sold and switch again to CATIA!

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    remy21-Topaz I
    21-Topaz I
    February 7, 2020

    Importing features and constraints back is a recurring pipe dream in data translation.


    This is not part of Creo functionalities according to the article : https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article?n=CS293949

    and of any CAD on the market.


    Only university projects ventured in this area: the level of complexity and the effort to keep the pace of updates (for all combinations: Inventor to Creo, Catia to Creo) is not viable (former CAD data exchange developer speaking) for an industrial company. That's why data translation focus only on the outer skin ie the Bézier Representation.

     

    Luckily Creo enables to import Inventor files : https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article?n=CS134024 

    You will have to make do with the BREP translation (which is already quite a lot) and the good news is that the Flexible Modeling extension enables to re-build some of the features (patterns, etc) and bring back some of the IP.

     

    and like shared by @BenLoosli  you need to decide on the methodology for older designs:

    • batch process the whole database or
    • import on the fly 
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      Saqibiqbal1-VisitorAuthor
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      February 7, 2020

      Hi Thanks for your suggestion regarding BREP, well this is for CAD, any idea about DRAWINGS (.idw) ??

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