HI All,
I brought in a STP file from a supplier. It opened it in Inventor (IV pro 2010), everything looks good. The file tree shows a number of BASE parts. The file has some unwanted geometry (removeable parts). I want to delete them. I was thinking I could Extrude (CUT) them away, but I keep getting errors. For instance "Extrusion could not be buit, Modeling failure in ASM, redefine input". Any ideas on how I could make this new IPT so I can delete some details of it?
Thanks
Bill
I have now added a quality check upon import and I get a message "could not import object". The part view that you have with all the seperated base parts never gets shown for me either. I can extrude on the side of the part with the circular feature, but i can't extrude on the side with the retangular feature in the lower section.
Hmm.
I opened the part with 2009 SR SP2 Build:550, copied the base to CE, unstitched, and did a quality check without any errors.
And I could do both adding or substracting extrusion on the face shown at the picture.
File added.
Walter
Walter Holzwarth
Hmmm
Try an extrution of 16.88mm in the same location. Thats where I get the error message.
Meanwhile I noticed it. I've tried some other ways, but I'm struggling with 2009, too. A newer version surely will do that better.
Walter Holzwarth
Can you zip and attach the original file here - I would like to use this one as a Repair lesson in my class today.
Meantime - I see that document I linked earlier is no longer avialable - try this http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/AU2008/ML205-1P%20Mather.pdf
Also - I should point out that that list of issues Inventor returned was on the part as a single part rather than as multi-body solids that it really is. When I unstitched Quality Check did not return any issues. Of course it doesn't run quality check on stuff that isn't (but should be) there - the missing surfaces.
Inventor 2010 has introduced multibody parts; it's easier then.
But if you want a cutting extrusion, just extend the short sides of the sketch over the part's contour. After that it's extruding in 2009, too.
Walter Holzwarth