Thread: AutoDesk Inventor

Hey there guys, are any of you seasoned in the use of Autodesk Inventor. I need some help and want to see if anyone has experience using it. Thanks, Scott

I use it just about everyday.

What's your question? Or if it is really indepth, send me an email at cris@clemson.edu

This is what I need to learn. Or maybe not :<0) I have been playing with Maya since ver.4.5 .Started making 3D models in 2003. Learned the primitive way to animate and played with code to change certain attributes. Built environments. I am afraid if I get to g-code I will be down another rabbit hole ? Does Inventor convert to g-code ? I do want to get to g-code. I can probably do it straight out of Maya but.... ?

I figured it out. I couldn't get a thread feature on a rod after I have chamfered the edges. It was stuck or something but when I restarted my computer it threaded with ease. If I had finished an IDW and want to scale it after I've fully dimensioned it and cut splines etc, is it possible?

Inventor seems to have issues with modifying chamfers and filets. Restarting the program usually fixes it.
You can scale the design at anytime, but Inventor is designed to do everything in full scale size and scaling a huge drawing with complex shapes can take a long time.

@10 pups
Inventor 2015 HSM can do gcode, but regular Inventor does not do gcode. For that matter, most CAD packages do not do gcode without some kind of add on. If you want to learn gcode, I'd suggest looking at MasterCAM - it converts just about every CAD package out there into gcode for sending to a CNC. gcode really isn't all that hard to learn once you wrap your head around it.

Guys, isn't this supposed to be a forum that uses the English language?

Originally Posted by criswilson10

Inventor seems to have issues with modifying chamfers and filets. Restarting the program usually fixes it.
You can scale the design at anytime, but Inventor is designed to do everything in full scale size and scaling a huge drawing with complex shapes can take a long time.

@10 pups
Inventor 2015 HSM can do gcode, but regular Inventor does not do gcode. For that matter, most CAD packages do not do gcode without some kind of add on. If you want to learn gcode, I'd suggest looking at MasterCAM - it converts just about every CAD package out there into gcode for sending to a CNC. gcode really isn't all that hard to learn once you wrap your head around it.

I brought my base views in a scale of 1/2 but I noticed after finishing dimensioning that it could have been a scale of 1:1, would I have to start a new idw and bring in my base views again and then re-dimension everything or is there a way to quickly change the scale of the whole drawing, I can send you it if you'd like.

Originally Posted by Utopian

Guys, isn't this supposed to be a forum that uses the English language?

It is English, I think

I was really tired last night when I read this thread and didn't understand a bit of it. I still don't, but it seems a lot less gobbleygookey now than it did before. Sorry, I'm a computer moron.

I figured I could pick it up as long as it's a straight vertices between 2 vertex. Always a $$$ plug in to make it work geeeshh.

Utopian,,don't be so hard on yourself with the words. Binary blank or digitally challenged are more politically correct terms. My favorite is "Maroon" which was coined by Bugs Bunny but, nobody ever gets it :<0)

I will have to spend some time looking at this Inventor software. You have me wondering why you would start with 1/2 scale ? Does the view on your UI not zoom in and out easily ? In modelling software you can scale a whole object or sections of it you have selected. I will watch this thread as long as you guys don't have to go 1 on 1 to solve things.

If you have multiple items at different scales then it may be quicker to bring them back in at the correct scale.
If the whole drawing is out of scale then you can select all and scale everything at once.
The dimensions typically follow the parts, but you can select the part, get its properties, and unassociated the dimension so that it doesn't change with the scale.