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Precise input icon grayed

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Message 1 of 15
bdaniels80
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Precise input icon grayed

I am using Autodesk Inventor 2013 and for some reason I cannot access the precise input option.  I can find the icon in the draw box, but it is grayed out and not clickable.  Am I doing something completely wrong?  Thanks for your help!

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Message 2 of 15
Ryan.Martinez
in reply to: bdaniels80

Post a screen shot, not exactly sure what you mean.

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Message 3 of 15
bdaniels80
in reply to: Ryan.Martinez

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Message 4 of 15
Ryan.Martinez
in reply to: bdaniels80

You have to activate a command first... Like line

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Message 5 of 15
bdaniels80
in reply to: Ryan.Martinez

Ahhhh, I knew I was just doing something stupid.  Thanks so much!

Message 6 of 15
Ryan.Martinez
in reply to: bdaniels80

haha no prob

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Message 7 of 15
SBix26
in reply to: bdaniels80


@bdaniels80 wrote:

Am I doing something completely wrong?


Not to be too smart-aleck, but in 99.99% of modeling tasks with Inventor, using the Precise Input box would be completely wrong.  I last used it, I believe, in my first evaluation of Inventor eleven years ago, before having any training.

What are you doing that needs the PI box?

Message 8 of 15
JDMather
in reply to: SBix26


@sbixler wrote:
  I last used it, I believe, in my first evaluation of Inventor eleven years ago, before having any training.

I last used it in 2001 or 2002 (v5).

 

I don't think I have even showed my students that it exists in the past 7 or 8 years.


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Message 9 of 15
Ryan.Martinez
in reply to: JDMather

I did not even notice it's exsistance untill i read this post.

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Message 10 of 15
tuiengr
in reply to: SBix26

I'm trying to use precise input to establish points for a 3D wire path.  I hope to be able to sweep a path around pulleys to mimick the wire path.  My attempt is to draw circles about each point to represent the root groove of my pulley and then to draw 3D lines tangent to the circles. 

 

So far I have not been that successful with this approach.  I entered an intermediate point incorrectly and trying to "reposition" via the 3D Move / Rotate command has been difficult, other points move erractically it seems.

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Message 11 of 15
Ryan.Martinez
in reply to: tuiengr

Post a copy of your file or atleast a screen shot. Also the version of inventor you are using.

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Message 12 of 15
SBix26
in reply to: tuiengr

I'd strongly recommend using 2D sketches to control 3D sketches and/or points.  Much more robust and much easier to control and adjust for design changes.

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tuiengr
in reply to: Ryan.Martinez

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Message 14 of 15
JDMather
in reply to: tuiengr

Imagine that you were doing a 2D drawing back on the drawing board or in AutoCAD.

 

sketch what that 2D drawing would look like from the top view (in a 2D sketch).

Exit sketch.

 

Now go to the front view, start a new sketch and sketch what that 2D drawing would look like from the front view (in a 2D sketch).

 

(an alternative would be top and right side view or front and right side view - whichever two views would be easiest to create on the drawing board)

 

Attach the file here. (forget your 3D sketch for now).


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Message 15 of 15
hellolitl
in reply to: Ryan.Martinez

I can't get my PI toolbar to work either.Inventor PI.jpg 

 

 

 

Just installed the SP2 on 2014, 64-bit.

Build: 246 Release: 2014 SP2

 

 

Please let me know if you have a solution.

 

Thanks!

 

ilya.

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