I have been downloading steel shapes (to Australian Standards) in ipt format from CADALOG.com in an effort to try and set up a library of steel shapes (sought of like you could customise menus in AutoCAD to select steel shapes from a menu). However, being new to Inventor, I have just learnt that iparts might be a better way as you can set the length parameter as editable. This sounds like it would achieve my objective of having a library of steel shapes that can be selected from a menu, then inserted and then enter the length you need. Can someone tell me if you can download these iparts from somewhere ready to go or do I just modify all of the ipt steel shapes I have already downloaded into iparts.
Anthony Paul
www.smpconsulting.com.au
An Inventor user since IV6 2002, and a 3D AutoCad user since R9 1989
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