Hi Igor.
I work for a wood window and door manufacturer, and we use mortise and tenon joinery in our sash corners. Imagine gripping a golf club, only all your fingers are interlocked.
It's all about our manufacturing processes and how we've chosen to use Inventor as a sketch based tool.
The sketch is on sheet 1 of my idw. Sheet 1 describes the profiile of the part only, and is used by our molders to cut the profile.
The part, derived from the sketch, is on sheet 2 of my idw. Sheet 2 describes how our tenoners apply the end details [mortise and tenons] to the part, and the part's length.
The part I attached is simple and contains no tenon details. Parts that do contain tenons would force me to make invisible, on sheet 1, the lines you would see in an end view [profile] of the part due to those tenons, and I don't want to do that. It's extra steps that I'm trying to design out of my process.
Since everything we do starts with the sketch, I am making that sketch contain all the information the idw needs to populate it's title blocks. I thought that any custom information contained in the sketch could be inherited by the derived part. I would only need to input the data once, at the sketch level, and that data would be linked between sketch and the part. This is similar thinking to using a sketch to derive the part: you change the sketch and all the parts using that sketch are updated.
Imagine the part numbering system we require to manage all of this.
GAAAAAAAH! ! ! ! 🙂
I love Inventor. It's simple, intuitive and friendly. I'm probably asking it to do too much. We used to use Catia [did you know that's an acronym?], which is a sketch based tool. We like sketch based design and can find no better way to do our work.
I really appreciate your willingness to help, Igor.
Steve
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