Import Custom Inventor Material Libraries into AutoCAD

[erickdt]

Hi All,

 

The engineering team at my office uses Inventor for construction/engineering drawings where as I strongly prefer using AutoCAD for design layouts of existing, engineered properties. As part of their workflow they've developed an extensive, custom materials library that I'd like to use in AutoCAD. When I export an AutoCAD drawing from Inventor the materials are there, applied to the objects but I have to manually go in and repath the bitmaps for the textures. I'm wondering if there's anyway to automate this process or simply import this Inventor material library. Inventor seems to use an XML file for its materials where as AutoCAD uses a .adsklib file.

 

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

 

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