What's Old is New Again - Using AutoCAD Blocks Inside Your Inventor DWG

“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it”
Michelangelo

Recently, I found that I wanted to use some data in my Inventor drawings.  The problem was, that the only resource I had available to me was a group of AutoCAD blocks.

Boym, wouldn't it be nice if I could reuse these?  :-)

Fortunately after Inventor 2010, we can reuse AutoCAD blocks inside of Inventor.  On the Annotate Tab, you can choose "Import AutoCAD Block" to reuse your AutoCAD blocks.

Insert Blocks from the Annotation Ribbon

Choose the block you want

Serve and Enjoy!  :-)

And of course, here's the video on how to do it. 

Finally, a couple of notes.

There is one thing to be aware of.  The blocks only work in the Inventor *.dwg file, not in the *.idw file.  It;s the only place I can think of where I've ever noticed a difference between the two files.

I'm not sure if the exact whys of this one, but it would be remiss of me not to mention it.

Also, I would be equally remiss not to thank Woodworkers Woodshop.  I located these profiles here, and converted them into AutoCAD blocks that I can reuse.  So if you're in the market for wood working info, swing by there site!