Going from SW to Inventor - Loop Select

[Anonymous]

I am a Solidworks user who just started working at a big company that uses Inventor. Right now I am feeling like someone opened my toolbox and took away half of my tools. But maybe that feeling will go away as I become proficient in Inventor. I have one specific question today. In Solidworks I am used to right clicking on a sketch element and selecting 'select tangency' or 'select chain'. In Inventor, 'select loop' is active, but it does not select the loop. Is there a way to select a loop, or do I have to click on every element one by one? See attached.

[JDMather]

No attachment?

Find the red End of Part marker in the browser.
(End of Folded on sheet metal parts EOF)
Drag the red EOP to the top of the browser hiding all features.

Save the file with the EOP in a rolled up state.

Right click on the file name and select Send to Compressed (zipped) Folder.

Attach the resulting *.zip file here.

[Anonymous]

Trying in a different browser. Attached.

[Anonymous]

It looks like my attachment took in Chrome. Doe this forum not like Firefox. Or is it one of my 20 or 30 addons messing things up?

[JDMather]

You are not going to like the answer to this one - Inventor will not offset that "loop" because there is other stuff connected to it.

I think your easiest solution is to exit the current sketch.

Make the sketch visible.

Start a new sketch and Project Geometry only the loop and then you will be able to offset.

When I get a chance I will have to test how SolidWorks would handle the same geometry.

[Anonymous]

I right clicked on the part name in the browser (feature tree) and did not see the zip option. Is that the right place? I found Pack and Go. I am in Inventor 2013.

[Anonymous]

I was afraid of that. I use loop select a lot in SW. I'll try what you suggested. Thanks.

[JDMather]

Well, I was wrong - something else is going on because I just tried to reproduce the issue from scratch in Inventor and it worked fine for me.

Zipping a file is a MS Windows function.

In Windows Explorer right click on the file name and select Send to Compressed (zipped) Folder.

But you shouldn't need to zip a file that small - I just thought it might help with the attatchment issue, but that seems to be browser related (I use IE).

Also, if you do it soon - you can click on Options on those extraneous posting attempts and delete them.

[Anonymous]

That works. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Part file attached. See sketch1. Maybe the short perpendicular lines are the problem. I'll try making them construction lines.

[JDMather]

You have Fixed constraints on everything (and no dimensions)?

What program are you using as your sketcher?

I don't use Fixed Constraints (Relations) in Inventor or SolidWorks.

Also,

In Sketch5 you must Project Geometry the edges (this is different than SolidWorks).

[JDMather]

I checked some of your (missing) dimensions and they don't make logical sense in inch or metric?

You might go through this tips and tricks document

http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/SkillsUSA%20University.pdf

[Anonymous]

Reading your pdf now. Thanks JD.