Save or Save As and Export commands

You can save or export Autodesk Inventor parts, drawings, assemblies, presentations, and parameters in various formats, depending on the data.

Routed Systems

For Cable and Harness files, you can save the harness part only in the context of its parent harness assembly. If there are no changes to the harness part, it is not listed in the dialog box. You can save the parent harness assembly on its own.

For Tube and Pipe files, you can save the Tube and Pipe route part and run assembly only in the context of the master runs assembly. When you make edits that change the route part or run assembly and click Yes to save dependants, the master runs assembly also changes to Yes. If you change the status of the route part or the run assembly, save the master and all other modified run assemblies or route parts under the master runs assembly as a unit.

Tips for saving a drawing to PDF

You can set options, and export the sheets in a drawing to a PDF file.

You can specify the pixel resolution for vector and raster graphics of the PDF files that you create. The higher the resolution, the greater the precision but the larger the file size.

• Vector resolution: 1200 DPI
• Custom vector resolution: 40000 DPI
• Gradient resolution: 200 DPI
• Custom gradient resolution: 200 DPI
• Color and grayscale resolution: 200 DPI
• Custom color and grayscale resolution: 200 DP.
• Black and white resolution: 400 DPI
• Custom black and white resolution: 400 DPI

When you create PDF files intended for plotting, select a resolution to match the output of your plotter or printer. High resolutions (over 2400 DPI) are for viewing. For example, for drawings that contain a lot of detail, such as a topographical map of a large region, use a higher setting for greater detail in the PDF file. Use extreme resolutions (over 40,000 DPI) only when necessary. As you increase the resolution setting, raster image quality increases, the speed of printing decreases, and memory requirements increase.

Formats Supported for Save and Export

	Save	Export
Part files	IPT	DWG, DWF, DWFx, PDF, BMP, GIF, IGES, IPT, JPEG, JT, PNG, SAT, STEP, TIFF, STL, CATIA V5 (.CATPart), Parasolid Binary (.x_b), Parasolid Text (.x_t), Pro/ENGINEER Granite (.g), Pro/ENGINEER Neutral (.neu)
Assembly files	IAM	DWG, DWF, DWFx, PDF, BMP, GIF, IGES, JPEG, JT, PNG, SAT, STEP, STL, TIFF, CATIA V5 (.CATProduct), Parasolid Binary (.x_b), Parasolid Text (.x_t), Pro/ENGINEER Granite (.g), Pro/ENGINEER Neutral (.neu)
Autodesk Inventor Drawing	Autodesk Inventor Drawing (DWG), Autodesk Inventor Drawing (IDW)	Autodesk Inventor Drawing (DWG), Autodesk Inventor Drawing (IDW), AutoCAD Drawing files (DWG), DWF, DWFx, PDF, DXF, BMP, GIF, JPG or JPEG, PNG, TIFF
AutoCAD Drawing files	DWG	Autodesk Inventor Drawing (DWG), AutoCAD Drawing (DWG), Autodesk Inventor Drawing (IDW), DWF, DWFx, PDF, DXF, BMP, GIF, JPG or JPEG, PNG, TIFF
Sheet metal flat pattern files	IPT from base IPT file	DWG, DWF, DWFx, PDF, BMP, GIF, IGES, JPG or JPEG, JT, PNG, SAT, STEP Right-click the flat pattern in the model browser, and Save Copy As SAT, DWG, or DXF.
Presentation files	IPN	DWF, DWFx, PDF, BMP, GIF, JPG or JPEG, PNG, TIFF
Sketch or planar face	---	Right-click a sketch in the model browser, and select Export Sketch As DWG (AutoCAD/LT or DXF (AutoCAD R12/LT2).
Parameters	---	XML.