What would be a workflow to turn Rhino models into Inventor assemblies, specifically so that someone can make exploded views for documentation? (Yes I know that doesn’t make the most sense in the world but it’s what I’m working with.) If part of the solution is “I need Inventor,” that’s okay…
Export every part as a block. Each with a coordinate system that makes it easy to set up constarints
Thanks…is Inventor going to pull the coordinate system from the block? Are there other methods of establishing them? Can it like automagically figure some out?
I don’t think so.
And am I going to have to bring in each blocked part one at a time? It can’t read a bunch of of instances in one file?
From my experience with other mcad no matter what you do the files will be imported as a geometrical positioned parts and you will have to re-establish the assemblies relations.
Hi Jim - I’d test, if you have not, making a Rhino file as a set of nested blocks reflecting the assembly structure and then export as STP.
-Pascal
Well at least this is for a big company that’s just getting me Inventor… Google says like 10 years ago it could import some STEPS as assemblies nicely but not anymore…
Hi, I’ve done this way few days ago:
_save each part of Rhinoceros file in .stp format
_create a new “assieme” in inventor
_load one by one the stp file and for each of them once imported right clik and choose “mantein absolute coordinate position”
In this way every file imported will be in the native position of Rhinoceros file