Imported STEP data

You can open a STEP file in Autodesk Inventor (create a file) or place a STEP file into an assembly.

Imported data can be placed in a Construction folder that contains individual group, solid, surface, and wireframe nodes. Surfaces are contained in a single node to help manage them for promotion in Part modeling, so you can promote multiple surfaces as a single feature.

In many cases, composite features possess the same behavior as Base Surface features. However, they can also have multiple individual bodies within them, such as solid and surface bodies that are not stitched as one. You cannot interact with the individual bodies.

Note: By default, Autodesk Inventor applies the part name (file name of the inserted part) to browser file nodes. Other CAD systems may apply the part number property. When a STEP file is imported into Autodesk Inventor, its name may differ from the name of the CAD system that generated the STEP file. To avoid confusion, use the Rename Browser Nodes command to specify the browser node naming scheme.

See Assembly Tools for more information about the Rename Browser Nodes command.