Wednesday, June 4, 2008

How To Open Inventor 2009 Files

Autodesk Inventor 2009 was recently released. As a result, you may start to receive .ipt part files from customers or co-workers that won't open in Mastercam. There's a fairly simple fix to get your translator up and going, and it doesn't even require an update to Mastercam.

Mastercam's Inventor translator utilizes the Autodesk Inventor View program to do its translations. At the time of this writing, the Inventor View 2009 program was not available at http://www.mastercam.com/, however we can always obtain it directly from Autodesk.

Inventor View 2009 Download Page

Prior to installing this version, please make sure to remove any previous Autodesk Inventor View installations from your Add/Remove Programs. After installation is complete, you will be able to open the new Inventor 2009 .ipt part files within Mastercam.