So extra file size, or anything that impacts performance is unwelcome. Either way, the extra file size translates to extra load times, and when one of our people must wait 5 minutes to get a drawing open in order to make a text change that takes 10 seconds, I hear about it. It's the complexity of the parts that will generally get us. Our assemblies aren't really that large compared to many. Note: If after using IDW for some time you do find a reason to switch or if you want to do it now, you can use the Inventor Task Manager to batch convert IDW to Inventor DWG wrote: One of my clients with over 1100 seats of Inventor has a standing company directive to use Inventor DWG due to the large amount of usage of their files in many different aspects of design. All of this is much more prominent in larger corporations as well. The collaborative uses become the outweighing advantages such as being able to use Design Center in AutoCAD to place View blocks from your Inventor designs into Factory layouts really quickly and the ability for users of AutoCAD 2000 and up to view the drawings and document them all the while keeping the Model geometry locked from the AutoCAD user. It really becomes a company decision on this based on all the information about the two formats, but to be clear, the functionality of drawing documentation inside Inventor will not fundamentally change, but you will get perks to the DWG format like your VAR mentioned about AutoCAD block insertions. It is easier to tell in Windows that is an Inventor file compared to an AutoCAD one We have always used that since we started Inventor I didn't know DWGs in Inventor could do that When I ask them about why these are the top three responses. From my experience with the users I have worked with since IV 2008 I have seen a steady progression toward DWG format from IDW where I would conclude the usage to be about 60/40 right now amonst users with 60% still using the IDW format. The file size difference is really quite small in comparision to what storage costs nowadays and the DWG opens up a lot more workflow opportunities if you have the need for them as well as more collaorative aspects as well. While IDW and DWG really perform the same basic task of creating drawings, the usage of DWG has been adopted more and more since Inventor 2008.
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