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This blog describes how to import Mechanical Desktop 2009 files into Inventor 2018 IPT, IAM and IDW files on Windows 7. The workflow provided is a best effort without official support from Autodesk.
Inventor 2018 will be the last release where MDT translation will be possible. If MDT data needs to be translated in the future, we recommend translating it into Inventor format using Inventor 2018.
The last release of Autodesk Mechanical Desktop was Mechanical Desktop 2009, which was supported through Inventor 2012. Mechanical Desktop 2009 was supported on Windows XP and Windows Vista. The Mechanical desktop installer does not block Windows 7 or Windows 10 installations, however only the Windows 7 x64 workflow below has been tested.
Inventor 2018 will be the last release that will unofficially supports this workflow. Future releases of Inventor will not contain the Mechanical Desktop translator. If you need to open/import legacy Mechanical Desktop files to a future version of Inventor, you’ll need to open or import in Inventor 2018 first, and then migrate the Inventor files to the current release.
Installation:
Note: This must be done before installing either Inventor or MDT.
To import Mechanical Desktop files
Issues:
Inventor Displays “ Mechanical Desktop Part/Assembly translator not registered. ”This is caused by a missing VS2005 x86 redistributable during the Inventor installation.
MDT License
This workflow allows a 30-day trial use of MDT 2009. Contact Autodesk Product Support if you have lost your original MDT license and need more than 30 days.
If you are experiencing any errors after following the steps above, please do not hesitate to contact our Technical Support Team here.
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