About Using Repair and Construction

Evaluate, repair, and heal models imported from other CAD systems.

You can import data from other CAD systems in Inventor. Usually, the files open as solid bodies in the part environment. When surfaces and wireframe are imported, depending on options selected during import, they are placed in the Part, Repair, or the Construction environment.

There are differences in the tools and behavior of bodies in the Repair and Construction environment.

The Repair environment:

• Uses advanced diagnostic and healing tools.
• Participates in modeling operations and history.

The Construction Environment:

• Does not participate in model history.
• Participate in modeling operations only if objects are copied to the part environment .