when creating a new part in solid works it asks you to choose a plane in the assembly onto which to sketch. it is better to sketch parts on the parts planes or the assembly planes and why? what if i am doing a top down assembly and decide to update the assmebly drawings to which the part...
when creating a top down assembly I am often confused as to which plane to sketch on. I could choose a plane from the assembly or the part. Normally they coincude but sometimes they dont. Will one cause a problem. If i draw a part feature on an assembly plane can the part exist outside the...
i have created a sub-assembly in which two parts are mated in such a ways where there is still movement along one axis. Upon importing this sub-assembly into a different assembly I lose this functionality. The sub-assembly can move but only as one complete unit. For clarification, the...
i have two parts that compliment each other, in that one of them is in a sence the area missing from the other. If I was creating a part i could use the combine feature to subtract one area from the other. In the assembly however i am having difficulty doing this since it is two distinct...
can anyone recomend a good tutorial for inventor 8 or 9
i know the basics but as a someone who previously used Solidworks I am ready to rip out my hair with this program.
i am attempting to revolve a feature about an axis. sw gives me an error message that it can't do it because the feature touches the axis. there is no other simple way of doing this. any way to get around the problem?
i have a sketch (.tiff .jpeg) that i need imported into solidworks so that i can use it as a rough outline of the product i am designing. Solidworks only lets me use it as a background making it difficult to use. i have to be able to manipulate it so that when i zoom in so does the picture...
how can i make one part dependant on another without skeletal modeling(using an initial skatch as a general layout).
i need one part to fit inside another and be able to be automatically updated when the the other part changes, but the entire thing is a multidynamic component and constraining...
please help me..im new to inventor(im used to solidworks).
i created a sketch that i plan to use as a layout for the rest of the part. i, however, cant seem to get inventor to use the first sketch. it wont allow me to constrain points to it. what can i do?
