gargoyle27 Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 i have an assembly i want to scale down (about 1/4) is that possible? it's simply because we know we will screw up somewhere along the way when machining it, so we'll work out the bugs on a smaller, cheaper piece of steel thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkFlayler Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 Open a new File Use the Derive Command on the Model Tab Derive the assembly into a single part with maintain each solid as a solid body Set a Scale factor on the Options Tab Use Make Components to create a new scaled down assembly automatically and save the new ipts accordingly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gargoyle27 Posted December 7, 2010 Author Share Posted December 7, 2010 i'm using 2009 so i think my options are a little different, i got the "derived assembly" window, it has a "scale factor" box i set as 0.25, do you know what else i need to change in this window? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkFlayler Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 Opps should have seen you are on 2009. Stop right there you cannot do it the easy way. You will have to do this for EVERY part manually if you want separate IPTs from it. Inventor 2010 and 2011 are 4 steps compared to the 4 step times the number of parts you have in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gargoyle27 Posted December 7, 2010 Author Share Posted December 7, 2010 nope, don't need separate ipts, i made them separately, but the part itself is a single piece Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 You just need to select the iam file in the Derived Component dialog box to derive it into a single part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gargoyle27 Posted December 8, 2010 Author Share Posted December 8, 2010 yeah, i got it firgure out, thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeconde Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Prof. Mather's, can this scaling be easily done in inventor 2010 as well? tia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Prof. Mather's, can this scaling be easily done in inventor 2010 as well? tia Go back and re-read the entire thread - your question has already been answered. Pay particular attention to Post #4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.