Assembly Environment Questions

[nicolas]

Hi,

I am looking for some answers wrt to the assembly environment in Inventor.

1. the simplest method to extend/stretch the end face of an imported part in the assembly environment in Inventor.

2. using grips in inventor (2012) and if this is the case to directly draw the profile and do extension in the assembly

Thank you in advance for answering.

Regards,

Nicolas

[JD Mather]

Do you know how far the extension is or only relative to another part position?
Is this distance likely to change?
Do you want it to be adaptive?

[nicolas]

I have not yet fully grasp the adaptive feature of inventor. I used to model windows and now I am using it for office partitioning system. The same section is used over and over again but with different extrusion length, extrude to the face of another 3D parts mainly. The distance is more or less static - not about to change for it is mainly for Catalogue works, rather than shop drawings.

I want to find a better way than having part a 200 mm, part a 250 mm, part a 300 mm and so on.

Thanks in advance.

[Bishop]

iParts, I think, will be your best solution.

[JD Mather]

...and look into iLogic for really slick way to control iParts. These are advanced topics - but really not all that difficult for your application.
But I am confused by your original problem description of "imported part".
Usually in Inventor that term is for STEP, IGES, DWG, ACIS or some other neutral format created in another program.
Is this native Inventor parts we are talking about or imported parts?

[nicolas]

I believe that I have been able to grasp the ABC of iparts (Part Environment|Manage|Create iparts) and I created additional row with different extrusion.
When placed in Inventor, I have a dialogue box called Place Standard iparts|tree tab where I can choose a part with a different extrusion.
This is a great step forward. Something that will be of great help to me.

However, I wonder about the possibility of directly extruding the inserted part in the assembly environment. LIke the Extruded to feature in Solid Editing in Autocad.

By "imported" part, I only mean the placed parts .. they are native inventor parts. Sorry for the wrong term.

Thanks u in advance for your help.



Thanks

[JD Mather]

By "imported" part, I only mean the placed parts .. they are native inventor parts.

Forget Grip Editing - pros don't use that.
I recommend you learn about multi-body solids modeling.
Master (skeletal) modeling.
iLogic
and if none of these really get you what you want
adaptive features. (I suggest at least a 12-18 months of experience before you try adaptive - there is usually a better way.)

Multi-body solids are easy and robust and very much like AutoCAD only better (parametric).
Quick and easy, but from your description I suspect iLogic will be the real productivity ticket.