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does anyone have any suggestions for the type of material i could use? it needs to be hardwaring and scratch resistant, low water absorption, easily formed, easily bonded, good UV properties, and cheap

The canoes are going to be made and used by a scout group, if it is a sucess other groups will be invited to use the mould. so yes they have to be very rhobust and im not too concerned about the weight, (i worked it out to be about 29kg, 64lb in ye olde weight) my main concerns are that the...

has anybody tried vacume forming a canadian style canoe? about 4m long x 900mm wide by 580mm deep. I was thinking of using 10mm thk HDPE sheet... any suggestions would be gtatefully recieved

all the bolts are the same size but used in different parts of the assembly. we are manually changing the boms at the moment for item numbers eg item 20 is a plate that needs 10 bolts (item 21) and 10 nuts (item 22) item 30 is a plate that needs 5 of the same bolts,(item 31) and 5 of the same...

Is it possible to split part qty in the bom table? we want the bom to read basically like this item qty desc 1 1 plate 2 10 m10 bolt 3 1 plate 2 4 6 m10 bolt instead we get for m10 bolt item ... qty 16 also we want to balloon the same bolts with different item...

from the pull down menus choose tools, customise, choose comand tab and have a play with the shortcut buttons

you can put dimensions onto imported sketch and change them but i dont think there is a scale command. once the sketch becomes a solid you can scale it.

when in a sketch use the insert autocad file button and follow the prompts. make sure your autocad drawing is on the xy plane and you should have no problems

very nice thanks

try using contact set with the 2 parts, put an angular constraint on the screw and drive it. dont know if it will work but worth a try

is it possible to do a reverse fillet? ie on the inside of a corner of cut plate create a mousehole instead of adding material as a normal fillet will do...

im being thick, could you explain in a bit more detail thanks

our naval architects are attempting to check our models on screen but their pc's are pretty crap. does inventor view use less resources or is there another way for them to view and measure the model?

is the text on a layer that is easy to change the colour?

check out either frequently asked questions or much older threads. im sure ive seen a procedure but never tried, would be interested how you get on

when you save the main assembly everything should be saved. we introduced vault and seemed to be losing constraints but it appears to be resolved now. our standard practice is to save the main assembly and make sure the files are checked in using inventor rather than vault explorer

if you are saving sub assemblys within a main assembly you may not be saving constraints in the main assembly although part updates will be saved

That is what i ment but it doesnt create the section when you click done. also when you middle button pan during the command it loeses the section. ive had some sucess putting the section lines in different places and modifying them but some just wont work...

you just save copy as dwg format and it will be exactly the same as the idw.

we are trying to take section from a boat but most of them dont work. for example when i try to section along the centre line it looks like its going to do it but when i press enter the section line dissapears and no new view is added. the model includes most of the boat components comprising...