Inventor 2D to 3D Tool
One of the most frequently asked questions is how they would recreate their 2D AutoCAD drawings to 3D. Before the Inventor 2D to 3D tool was made available for us to download, the work around is to get the base sketch from the AutoCAD drawing and paste it in your part sketch. Then, add the other necessary features. Others find this quite unappealing especially if they have to recreate 3D parts from 1,001 2D part drawings.
I just tried this neat tool earlier and I was surprised on how fast I recreated a 3D part from a 2D drawing.
All I did was:
1. Create a 2D sketch
2. Insert an AutoCAD drawing
3. Select the orthographic projections
4. Set the face of the base view
5. Select the geometry to put in the base view
6. Set the projected views and select the geometry
7. Extruded the base feature
8. Extrude (Intersect) the other projections
Download the Inventor 2D to 3D tool at Autodesk Labs.
Add comment February 2, 2007
