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hello friends welcome to free cad tutorial and in this tutorial we will
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learn how we can open the autodesk inventor file in free cad so for that we
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will head over to the add-on manager and we will search for the add-on here
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inventor so we will install this in inventor loader and once you install the inventor loader then
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restart your free get here I have already installed the inventor loader now I will close it now once
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you install the inventor loader then I will here show you our inventor file it is a drive
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transfer shaft IPT that is the inventor part file so I will select it and I will
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say open so once I open the inventor file then it asking me in which format
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you want to open so if here I click on convert to step then my inventor part
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file will be converted as a step so here now I can save this file as a free cat
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file so that is the one option now I will discard it and again I open the
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inventor file and I will say open now here is a SAT format so SAT is a file
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extension stores three-dimensional geometry information within a standard text file format so if I click on the SAT file then it also open my gear in a form of SAT file
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now we will try the third options again I open the same file now here I way if I
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click on the native then it open the inventor file in a native format now here
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I can see the sketch so if I edit this sketch I can change the profile but here the features
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made in revolve which should not be editable in a free cad so with the help of this add-on we can
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directly open a inventor file in freecat without converting to the step outside
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of the freecat like in an inventor like if I if we wanted to open the inventor
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file in a freecat then we have to save as the inventor file as a step file in
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inside the inventor but here with the help of this extensions we can directly
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open it in a free CAD as a step file so this is the very useful add-on basically
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for those who are working parallelly with a free CAD and Autodesk inventor so
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I hope you have liked this add-on inventor loader if you have any
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suggestion about this tutorial then please give your valuable suggestion in the comment sections I will come with more useful tutorial like this on free
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get thank you for watching and thank you for your valuable time
