Hello,
I am a newbie to Inventor, who do not even know the appropriate terms (jargon) to search for. Hence I am asking this in this forum. I am ready to learn through documentation and other resources. I just need to know the term to serch for.
Basically I am evaluating to model rebars in Inventor. Rebars come in predefined shapes - for example a "L" bar will have two dimensions (marked as A, E and R). The shape definition is fixed by a standard (like BS:8666) and the values for dimensions A, E and R are provided when it is instantiated as a part in an assembly.
I created an assembly as follows:
My questions:
Many thanks for your time,
Narayanan
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I'm not sure why you created the cube?
Anyway, open an assembly and click place from content centre and choose a ramdom bolt. click on your workspace and you will be presented with a table, asking you which length of bolt and which thread size you want.
This is called an ipart and you can make your own one with your part.
Failing that, if I only need a couple of configurations, I save copy as of my original and edit the dimensions, so now you have 2 independant parts that will not affect each other.
@Anonymous wrote:
.... do not even know the appropriate terms (jargon) to search for. Hence I am asking
Narayanan
Search on the term iPart as indicated.
What version of Inventor are you using (2014)?
Someone here can create a simple iPart for you in minutes to show you the basic process.
Thanks for the info. I created the cube just as a matter of practice, but absolutely unnecessary for this question.
I tried iPart and it works well as I expected, but with one side effect. It creates a part file for each change in the dimenion that I make while inserting the part. Is there any way I can delete those part files, but still the part inserted in assembly still works? Like binding in Xref in AutoCAD...
Thanks again.
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