MoI or Rhino to start

 From:  Michael Gibson
7575.8 In reply to 7575.7 
Hi davide,

> What if we didn't actually design a part but we need to check and modify an external design made
> by Autocad? In MoI did we have all is needed to import, check and modify complex external
> Autocad design?

Rhino has more tools for doing that type of stuff. But it depends on the specifics of exactly what you want to check and what specific modifications you want to make.

The focus in MoI is much more on drawing your own stuff instead of analyzing already existing parts, although they can be loaded into MoI.

It also depends on the details of how the AutoCAD design was created specifically - like is it a 2D blueprint drawing? Polygon mesh objects? Solids? There are many different possible ways to create stuff in AutoCAD and Rhino supports more kinds of AutoCAD entities than MoI does.

- Michael