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how toUNIION or SUBTRACT in inventor

how toUNIION or SUBTRACT in inventor

how toUNIION or SUBTRACT in inventor

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Remember AutoCad? Mechanical Desktop?
When working with 3D models you could "weld" 2 pieces together using a "union" command. Let's say we "unioned" a cap onto a bottle. Later you could surround the bottle with a solid block and "subtract" the bottle from the block leaving the mold for a bottle with cap.

I would like to do the same thing in Inventor, for a few different reasons. One of which is to be able to send a dummy block of a product to a supplier/customer without giving away any details except the outside dimensions.

In another case, you could create a part on an existing surface mimicking the various depths and cut-outs etc. and then just subtract that part from the new part re-creating all the detail without any of the fuss.

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