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AutoCAD Architecture/MEP 2010
Common Features
§Inventor Parts to ACA/AME as:
§MvBlocks
§AutoCAD block
§MvParts (AME only, incl. connectors)
§Currently no API plans for this feature
Part files and assemblies from Autodesk Inventor can be exported to AutoCAD Architecture as MV Blocks. The expanded functionality provides many uses, such as professionals exchange data between both products. Use-case scenarios include exporting furniture designs from Inventor as MVblocks so that they can be used for furniture layouts.

As part of an Autodesk initiative, we will be able to import Inventor parts into ACA or AME. You have the option of MvBlocks, AutoCAD Blocks, and in AME only, MvParts. This will be quite an interesting aspect of the feature with the ability to pick up an Inventor part and create an AutoCAD MEP MvPart, including the ability to assign connections, etc. Currently there are no APIs exposed to do this, so the feature is dialog driven – you initiate the import, you walk through few dialogs, and then import it. Unfortunately this feature cannot be automated because there aren’t any APIs in this release. But certainly if there is any interest automating the feature, we would like to hear about it for future enhancement.