We have a user who has had this happen about three times and we have no clue as to what is happening. He is working on several new parts and assemblies using those parts. When I get called over he has a new assembly started, parts inserted and constrained, and he can not save it. When you hit...
We can add a macro (IVB) to a button definition but is there any way to define a menu button inside Inventor to launch an executable Window's application? We have an executable application that is a compiled VB app to do some file management and we'd like to be able to launch it from within...
We just downloaded the Autodesk file to optimize settings for Inventor at :
http://adeskftp.autodesk.com/prodsupp/downloads/TS100796.pdf
and these suggestions have us reducing the screen resolution and turning off all the XP features and effects that make the screen visually appealing. Our...
We just moved to Inventor 9 and we had all our dimension styles set as we needed them. Now when we start a new drawing we get all these new styles like BSI, DIN, GB, ISO, JIS, XXXBigText and things like that. We want to PURGE these as we don't and won't use them BUT Inventor says they are all...
We have had many situations where we need to simulate a rectangular shaped object rotating at a certain distance away from a rotating shaft (like a pallet on a chain) but we only need to check for interference. There may be other ways to do this but we found that we can constrain the base of the...
We have just upgraded to Inventor Version 9 and every time we open an assembly all the work features (user planes, points, axes...etc) have their visibility ON. Is there any way to make it so when you open an assembly that the default is to have work feature visibility turned OFF?
Thanks and...
There are a couple ways to make a mirrored part from an existing part in Inventor 8 *BUT* is there any way to make a mirrored DRAWING from the original part so that all the dimensioning/tolerancing/notes/comments don't have to be manually redone for the drawing file of the mirrored part?
Any...
Okay, another quickie. We have some symbols defined such as a revision block that we place beside our title blocks on drawings. If I click the SYMBOLS icon and bring up the symbols window, select the revision block and insert it, I CANNOT snap to anything on the title block or border, I can...
Okay, here's a head scratcher to me. We have all our dimension styles defined and have all of them setup to USE NUMERATOR is checked ON for all styles. When I insert a view of a part with multiple holes and dimension using the HOLE/THREAD command the numerator doesn't show. When I Edit Hole...
We have several machine series we design here with over 5 decades of history so our numbering scheme is pretty chaotic. The problem we have run into is that when you create folders more then one level deep in the shared workspace and you check a file out, it creates anything beyond that one...
We do a lot of formed plexiglass and sheet metal parts. When we create a drawing and have a face-on view of a non-right-angle bend, there is nothing displayed where the bend is. Is there any way to show some lines along the bend line so it doesn't just look like one common face?
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We utilize a lot of macros for Inventor 8 (thanks Sean, Charles, Geir and all the rest of you guys) but the problem we run in to is when we assign a macro to a button all the macro buttons have the same icon making them a little hard to distinguish. Is there ANY way to change the button icon...
Coming from the ::gulp:: SolidWorks world I was used to having the ability to create sub-folders in the model tree of a top level assembly and organizing parts, sub-assemblies and fasteners into sub-groups and minimizing the folders so you don't have a line entry showing for each and every...
We have purchased parts we are saving off into a common library to allow everyone to utilize common purchased parts from a common location. The situation is that by being a library part when you open (or insert) the item you can't alter it directly. A good thing. The issue is we can open any...
We make a lot of sheet metal guards and covers here and we bend a lot of intermitent folds (i.e. a 12" long sheet metal part with a 6" long flange in the middle bent 90-degrees) BUT we do NOT cut relief to make the bends. They manage to bend the part so the stepped flange is flush with the...
We have a file structure that involves a network drive that has a folder structure that includes root folders for parts, assemblies, drawings, etc. and then under these a folder structure based on the file names to prevent having a bazillion files in any one folder. The situation in question is...
I know you can do a basic dimension in Inventor 8 and select one line, move off the line and RMB and pick INTERSECTION and then a second line and dimension from that intersection. BUT is there any way to perform this same function with ORDINATE dimensioning??? Sometimes you need to set the...
We have settled on our standard for our title block and decided to remove the revision table and use the built in one with Inventor 8. We customized the layout of the revision block, added some fields and anchored it to our title block. When we OPEN this drawing file, everything is fine.
BUT...
We often draw pulleys and parts with tapered sides and often chamfer or fillet the edge to break the sharp corner. When we dimension the drawing of the part we NEED to dimension to the theoretical sharp corner of the intersection of the two surfaces but since they are not horizontal or vertical...
We have a lot of parts with multiple tapped holes or clearance holes and determining what is what is the only way to place fasteners. When you open a part and click on a hole it does NOT highlight the feature in the model list (yet if you are in an assembly and you click on an item it DOES...
