Looking for similar dynamic blocks features in Inventor

[alijahed]

Hi All,

 

Please don't give me a hard time by saying that was AutoCAD and this is Inventor

I am about making a wooden structure out of 90x45 stud. After extruded the stud 90x45x250mm and save it as stud.ipt I went through adoptive features in Inventor but you can not insert stud.ipt several times in assembly and having the adoptive feature at the same time.

I want some flexibility to build my structure using just one part stud.ipt.

 

Is it possible?

 

I hope I made my point clear. Please let me know if you need more information on this.

 

Cheers

 

Ali

[JD Mather]

iPart

iLogic

Frame Generator

(any one of those 3 options) I would use Frame Generator with custom profile.

[alijahed]

Thanks,

I went for frame generation but all of them related to Metalic sections. There is a drop-down menu for material but is there any solid rectangular section? I briefly looked at it but didn't find any.

[alijahed]

test.zipI cannot select my sketch to make a frame out of frame generator?!

[Bishop]

I haven't had time to look at your file, so I may be way off target here, but you can't use sketches in the assembly as a skeleton for frame generator. The sketch has to be in a part file. Whenever I use Frame Generator, I will 99% of the time create a part named "FRAMEGEN SKELETON" or something similar, and it only contains a sketch.

[JD Mather]

You should go through the Frame Generator tutorials first. (as noted - you need a Skeleton.ipt in your iam)

http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/Inventor/enu/2012/Help/2144-Tutorial2144/2145-Inventor2145/2731-Frame_Ge2731

You can add your own custom profiles and materials to the shapes/list.

[alijahed]

Awesome:shock:

I like this ...