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How to import,convert Mechanical Desktop 2009 files into Inventor Part, Assemblies and Drawings (IPT, IAM and IDW, DWG) files.
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.
This workflow allows a 30-day trial use of MDT 2009.
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