Autodesk Inventor

[#1]

Is there a way to get the appearance of perforation on a sheet metal tube without

having to create each and every hole?  Looking for an appearance to drag onto the surface.

Kind of like when you make a part look like it is made of brick.  It being just an image on the model surface.

Thanks

Scott

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hi..

If you look in colors list you will find a Perforated Metal 01 style... thats it?

[#3]

Ding, Ding, Ding.....

That is it!!! Thank you.  I did look there but my eyes didn't catch that.

[#4]

hehe

Where can i  send the bill? Joke

[#5]

Funny,

You can send this bill to the same place you sent the last one!!! 

[#6]

Maria,

I have one more question.  While this perferation looks great in the model

how do you get it to show up in the drawing short of changing the view to shaded?

Is there a way?

[#7]

Hi Scott,

That's the big disadvantage of using the image rather than model features. I think that is not possible see in the image without being shaded view.

Autodesk folk, some trick???

Thanks,

[#8]

Thanks Maria,

Yes, this is an issue.  But since my company is tranisioning to Vault this

may not be as much of an issue anymore.  The only reason is we have to save these

Inventor drawings out as .dwg so the checker can check various things in ACAD.

He does not have Inventor nor knows how to use it.

I did shade it for the Inventor drawing.  Looks great that way.

Thanks again for your reply.

Scott

[#9]

Hi Guys,

Do any of you know how to scale the holes to appear smaller in the perf appearance?

Thanks

C1

[#10]

Manage>Stlyes Editor. Find the Color you want to alter. Change the settings on either the Texture tab or the Bump Map tab (can't remember which one).