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An article by Paul Munford ( The CAD Setter Out ) For CAD Clues Blog. If you regularly exchange drawing files with a Client, colleague or Contractor who is using Autodesk Inventor, then you may be interested in this simple trick for Extracting 2D geometry from an Inventor DWG file. To try this out, you will need: · An Autodesk Inventor DWG file · AutoCAD! TIP : You will need an Inventor DWG file – not an Inventor IDW file. This is Inventor’s own drawing file format and cannot be opened by AutoCAD. Our DWG File open in Inventor. OK, how do we go about it? The process is simple. First we will open the Inventor DWG up in AutoCAD, and then we will hunt out the Information we need. The Autodesk Inventor Sheet browser – showing the Views we wish to use in AutoCAD. Inventor DWG Weirdness. Inventor DWG files open up in AutoCAD just fine. You will see that the Paper Space layout looks just like Inventor’s Sheet layout. Our DWG File open in AutoC...