By admin on July 22nd, 2008
For those of you that have tried grip editing in earlier versions of Inventor, I invite you to look into it once again. Just about any aspect of a feature can be quickly modified without having to search the model browser or wade through a dialog box.
Take a look at this video for a couple examples of grip editing techniques in Inventor.
Watch Grip Editing Video Here
Contributed by Ben of the INCAT CAD Geeks
By admin on July 22nd, 2008
Topics: 3D Grips, Edit Features, Editing parts, part modeling
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By admin on July 7th, 2008
I have to be honest, I haven’t really used the “Coil” command in Inventor very much. After taking a deeper look into it, I found that not only do you have complete control of how the coil will be created, you can even create a spiral. The options inside allow you to control the shape by Pitch and Revolution, Revolution and Height, Pitch and Height and the before mentioned Spiral. You can even control the end points so that they would behave like flats on the end of a spring. Keep in mind that you could use this command to actually create threads in your models. Use with caution, a helix is the most computational consuming procedure for modeling purposes and can greatly reduce performance if used excessively.
John with the INCAT CAD Geeks
By admin on July 7th, 2008
Topics: Autodesk Inventor 2009, Coil, part modeling
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By admin on March 26th, 2008
In the days of old when knights were bold and pistols weren’t invented. Oops, that is a different story. Ah yes a point, there needs to be a point. Let’s take a look at that idea for makng extrusions in Inventor. In the past there were not options to extrude to work points or sketch points, you needed a plane, feature or a known distance.
Well in Inventor 2009 there is added functionality for this work flow. We can now put in a work point or sketch in a point and use that to drive the distance of an extrusion.
THAT IS MY POINT!
Enjoy it,
Jim….Another one of the INCAT CAD Geeks!
By admin on March 26th, 2008
Topics: Inventor 2009, extrude, part modeling
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By admin on February 19th, 2008
Do you ever run across situations where you would like to pattern or mirror a feature, but they won’t work because your intended result isn’t to have symmetrical features?
Try Copying the feature instead. You can copy features from one face onto another, and can even link the copy to the parameters of the original.
Contributed by Ben of the INCAT CAD Geeks.
By admin on February 19th, 2008
Topics: Autodesk Inventor, Copy Feature, part modeling
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By admin on January 16th, 2008
One of the features that you may have read about when Inventor 2008 was released was a new “Face Fillet” option in Inventor’s usual Fillet command. The face fillet option will allow a fillet to be created between two faces that don’t even share a common edge! If you haven’t seen the new tool in action, take a look at the following video for a quick example:
http://screencast.com/t/LTFD6eYZIy
Until next time,
Ben with the Incat CAD Geeks
By admin on January 16th, 2008
Topics: Inventor, fillets, part modeling
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Do you ever run across situations where you would like to pattern or mirror a feature, but they won’t work because your intended result isn’t to have symmetrical features?
One of the features that you may have read about when Inventor 2008 was released was a new “Face Fillet” option in Inventor’s usual Fillet command. The face fillet option will allow a fillet to be created between two faces that don’t even share a common edge! If you haven’t seen the new tool in action, take a look at the following video for a quick example:
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