Hello everyone,
I have imported an IGES file in Inventor and I need to dimension and detaill the piece in a 2D drawing. The thread and hole wizard does not recognize the holes in the workpiece as holes. Also I sectional view does not display hatched areas of the workpiece even though I have the display option checked on. Is there any sort of feature recognition within Inventor that I can use to import all geometry so that inventor understands?
Anybody have any tips or suggestions? I am working with 2011 Pro and have about 1500 hours on the program so far.
I was considering redrawing the workpiece by creating a part within an assembly and overlaying the two pieces on top another and using refernece geometry but this might not be the most ideal method. Thanks for the info guys!
If you attach the file here, someone may be able to help. But it sounds as if the part is surfaces, not a solid.
@raumechanicaljoe wrote:Hello everyone,
I have imported an IGES file .... The thread and hole wizard does not recognize the holes ... Is there any sort of feature recognition within Inventor that I can use to import all geometry so that inventor understands?
Anybody have any tips or suggestions?
Normally I have a paper here http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/AU2008/ML205-1P%20Mather.pdf
on working with IGES fils, but our server has been down all day.
You will need to stitch to a solid (if it is surfaces) and run Feature Recognition add-in http://labs.autodesk.com
or
attach the original IGES file here as suggested.
or
request a STEP from the source.