I have used Inventor in combination with AutoCAD for commercial stone
facades, precast, PGRG, GFRC, etc. The end product was always AutoCAD. As an
example I modeled a classic portico for a 40,000 spft house in inventor then
saved as dwg. Inventor was the fastest way to draw and great for
presentations to the client but I find Inventor is to cumbersome when
compiling and annotating Architectural drawing sets (including shop
drawings). Also classical stuff is spline intensive which taxes Inventor. I
would not use Inventor for flat stone work. I can create joint layouts and
piece tickets much much faster in AutoCAD.
Al Jolley
ACJ Enterprises, Inc.
"Darren J. Young" wrote in message
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> I'm curious if anyone here uses Inventor for things that cross over into
> the Architectural fields, perhaps like structural steel, precast
> concrete, arcitechtural stone, etc.
>
> I've got a number of clients the do architectural precast concrete or
> stone fabrication. While these products go on buildings and are designed
> based on architectural blueprints, the end drawings are more mechanical
> in nature, piece parts to fabricate stone or piece parts that forms are
> fabricated from to pour the stone.
>
> Aside from what's referd to as the shop drawing, which are usually
> elevations andor pland, sections of the product in the location thay's
> go on the building, the remaining drawings are all piece parts.
>
> I've been thinking of playing around in this area a little with Inventor
> to see how it works up. Modeling the pieces in 3d would be a snap,
> changes resulting form field conditions or design changes could easily
> be done.
>
> Even the shop drawings (plans/elevations) I'd imagine could be done like
> an assembly.
>
> Anyone else doing anything like this that want's to share their results?
>
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> Darren J. Young
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