Simple Inventor 2013 Question

[shl212]

Hi all,

I am taking my first class in Inventor. I have never seen this program before and am having trouble with one simple thing... After I create a sketch, how do I center it about the origin? The origin is projected, I just can't figure out how to set the sketch about it.

I know this is a simple question but I have never seen this program until today and it is driving me nuts.

Thanks for your help in advance.

[MingweiGao]

Add constraint(s), such as Coincident, Symmetric. But it depends on your specific sketch.

[BarryZA]

[CCarreiras]

Hi!

You have to use one geometric contrain (or 2 dimensional constrains), between your geometry and the center point. Usually we use the "connect" constrain as you can see in the picture above. But you have to do that with the sketch opened.

The center point is a projection point, so, if you delet it some how, you can put it again in the work area by using the "project geometry" tool and pick the center point. The center point is In the browser, in the Origin Folder.

When the geometry starts to be fixed, or constrained, it changes color, also in the tab on the bottom right, you can see how many constrains you need to fix all the geometry.

Regards

[JDMather]

http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/SkillsUSA%20University.pdf
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com/p/inventor-tutorials.html
http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/enu?adskContextId=HELP_TUTORIALS&language=ENU&release=2014&product=Inve...