Autodesk Inventor

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As I said, this is a collection of previously used part being put to a new task.  The come from some files that were metric and others that were english, different designers, different eras, and suppliers who are notorious for goofy dimensioning.

Stir in my newness to Inventor and frustration prevails.

[#2]

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cheree.lee wrote:

Stir in my newness to Inventor and frustration prevails.

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This is typical for what I see all the time.  If you let it frustrate you - you will soon not have any hair and/or a hole in the wall from beating your head... 

At least the sketches are dimensioned/constrained with some logical order of creation - so it is easy to track down the problem.

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Back to my one question............was I correct in thinking that the same steps that sudccessfully got the first bolt in place and constrained should have worked for all of them?  If the bolt patterns was the same.

Also, most of the parts I simply pulled in from the other sources.  I didn't  clean them up, or do anything more than take a first wack at duplicating the old existing drawings.  I am thinking I should do that now before I go too much farther.   Your thoughts? 

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Same technique should work for all of them.

I think you will find that most people don't trust Acad work once they start using Inventor, especially if the work was done by someone else.  At least with Inventor you have a history tree you can check to see how something was done and where they went wrong.  Without a history I always feel like I need to start over from scratch because I can't trust anything someone else did if I find one thing wrong.

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I was beginning to feel that way on a lot of the work I've been doing in Inventor.  I've already given up trying to bring really old AutoCAD files in.  

Part of me wanted to believe that I could just pull them in an go merrily down the path.  The I stared running into things like dimension over rides.  

Thanks for your help.  I'm going to spend some time cleaning up the mess, and then working with getting the patterns corrected. 

If I run into trouble I'll be back in the forum.

One last question though, if my holes have chamfers and lead chamfers does that mess with the bolt connections?  should I be picking the edge of the chamfer or the edge of the hole itself?

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cheree.lee wrote:

One last question though, if my holes have chamfers and lead chamfers does that mess with the bolt connections?  should I be picking the edge of the chamfer or the edge of the hole itself?

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No problem with chamfers.

Select the clamping face circle. (which I assume would be your chamfer edge rather than hole edge)