File Format Versions that work with Autodesk Inventor

Inventor users email in their questions to [email protected]

A Mrs. Richard Feder from Fort Lee, New Jersey writes in:

What file types does Inventor work with?

Director of Inventor Software Development, Roger Mollon, provided a nice chart:

Translator	Read Versions	Write Versions
Alias (Autodesk Labs)	All Versions
CATIA V5 (Autodesk Labs)	R6-R18
IGES	All Versions	5.3
JT (Autodesk Labs)	6.4; 7.0; 8.0; 8.1; 8.2; 9.0; 9.1	7.0; 8.0; 8.1; 8.2; 9.0; 9.1
UGNX	3-5
Parasolid	Up to 19.0	9.0-19.0
Pro/ENGINEER	14 and above, up to Wildfire 3.0
Pro/ENGINEER Granite	Up to 4.0	1.0-4.0
Pro/ENGINEER Neutral	N/A	N/A
SAT	4.0-7.0	4.0-7.0
SolidWorks	2003-2008
STEP	AP214, AP203E2	AP214, AP203E2
STL		N/A
XGL/ZGL		N/A

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