Inventor Import Problems

[brandontw]

Hi Everybody...

Just joined the forum. Im trying out the trial version of keyshot to use for rendering my inventor product files. Ive tested a few, and it seems that it always comes up with a failed message, either something about fileversion, or just failed to open...

Am i doing something wrong?

Step files seem to work ok... it ripped part of my model off an enlarged it, but otherwise it worked... do i have to export to step everytime instead of loading inventor .ipt and .iam files?

I noticed some post from last year saying that you were working on inventor support. Is that still underway?

[guest84672]

We support Inventor 2011 and 2010. Are you using Inventor 2012 by any chance?

[brandontw]

Indeed. I am using 2012. Any workaround to get it working? Ive been trying to export to .stp then import, but all my assemblies get torn apart, and the scale relationships get crazy. I still have not been able to successfully import my assembly for rendering.

[guest84672]

Use the catia export from Inventor, and then import it into KeyShot. Works great.

[brandontw]

I figured that out! Ive got some great shots coming through now... thanks!

It would still be nice to just load up my .IAMs without conversion, but this works.