INTERFERENCE

[rclement]

WHEN YOUR IN ASSEMBLIES AND YOU CHECK IF THERE IS A INTERFERENCE. IT CREATES A RED SOLID. BUT YOU LOOSE IT. CAN THAT BE SAVED AS A SOLID SOMEHOW"

[JDMather · Accepted solution]

You could do a Derived Component and then Combine-Intersection.

The advantage to this technique is it would leave your originals intact, yet automatically update if you change the originals.

[JoyceZhou]

Thanks for the suggestion. There is another suggestion for Interference Analysis Improvements at Ideastation: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Inventor-IdeaStation/Interference-Analysis-Improvements/idi-p/4838599 Could you also add this suggestion to Ideastation so we could collect them together? Thanks! Joyce

[rclement]

i checked out a video on youtube for interference but its using autocad 3d. i found that autocad 3d does alot more than inventor intereference. . a whole dialoge box appears with the ability to keep the solids. not bad for autocad..why doesnt inventor do this. you would think inventor would have more capabilities?

bob c

[JDMather]

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@rclement wrote:

i checked out a video on youtube for interference but its using autocad 3d. i found that autocad 3d does alot more than inventor intereference. . a whole dialoge box appears with the ability to keep the solids. not bad for autocad..why doesnt inventor do this. you would think inventor would have more capabilities?

bob c

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You are describing completely different operation than CAN be done in Inventor as well. 

And in fact, it is parametrically associative in Inventor where it is not in AutoCAD.  Not bad for Inventor.

[rclement]

maybe cause autocad is more wireframe? all i know is that people have asked for this feature from 2007. because i searched interference here.

i was wondering why autodesk has responded to this issue. or maybe they have by not doing something. i also have used nx in yrs pass and they had the capibilities as well.

either way jd you have to say would be more useful

[JDMather]

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@rclement wrote:
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either way jd you have to say would be more useful

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I don't know what you are saying.  I am telling you the exact same capability is ALREADY in Inventor.

[rclement]

where by using derive.

i dont see it. i use interfernce i get a red solid that disappears. and a volume t

[JDMather]

Attach your assembly here.

I will show solution created in Inventor and created in AutoCAD for comparison.

[JDMather]

Well, no files - let me work through this in Inventor 2013 and AutoCAD 2013.

AutoCAD does not return the volume - extra massprop step for that.

The Inventor tool you are using is an Inspection/Analysis tool, not a geometry creation tool.

Notice in assembly enviroment tools like Extrude/Sweep.... only cut away material.

There is a way to Copy Object and Split or Sculpt to get an interference volume in assembly as you requested, but I don't think that is what you are after (I could be wrong and if so, I can demonstrate that process as well (it is pretty easy)).

Back in a minute with physical part of the red interference like AutoCAD would create.

[JDMather]

Here it is.  What did that take? 3min?

[JDMather]

Actually half that time was zipping, replying and attaching the zip.  So really more like 1.5 minutes.

The big advantage - it is parametrically associative, so any changes in the assembly or component parts is automatically updated (if desired).  (could suppress or break link if desired to preserve as-is for reference after additional changes)

[rclement]

ok i tried it . cool. does what you said it would do. im not famaliar with derived parts as you. so i had to fill in some of the steps but ya learn everyday with inventor. and the forums are a very useful tool.

thank you for your time and effort