Configurations

[Anonymous]

I am new to Inventor and am looking for the way Inventor does configurations. I come from a SolidWorks background

and there you could make multiple configurations of your assemblies. How does Inventor deal with configurations?

I did a search on configurations and not much came up. It might be that it is called something else in Inventor.

I would appreciate any help or advice.

Thanks

Randall

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Inventor has many ways to deal with configurations. They are named differently.

In Inventor Help, search on iAssemblies, Positional Representations, iParts, Adaptivity, iLogic, etc.

[cadman777]

My work-flow had recently changed, and I need IV 2010 to work like SW "configurations".

The above doesn't provide enough information for me to make an informed decision on how to accomplish this.

I use assemblies instead of weldments in IV, b/c weldments hog resources and kill performance.

When using features in assemblies, this problem occurs:

The "machined" features disappear when the model changes.

This doesn't happen w/part files. The features "break", but they don't disappear.

This also happens with the "frame generator", which I use quite frequently.

QUESTION:

Is there a way to use assembly features (i.e., do "machining") in assemblies without the problems?

If so, what is the work-flow in Inventor?

Thanks ... Chris

[Anonymous]

Was there ever a resolution to this problem.

We want to be able to control our design using one model when we the option of building the product out of different materials.

For example we want to have a component that is avaiable in 304 stainless and also 316 stainless. This means that the to different components would have two different stock codes and material call outs.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks for your help.

Stephen.

[JDMather]

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