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Offset Issue

lmc.engineering — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 08:12:32 GMT

Hi All,

Anyone got any idea's as to why this is happening?

It often feels like a new day a new problem with Inventor.

Re: Offset Issue

JDMather — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 10:53:36 GMT

@lmc.engineering wrote:

Anyone got any idea's as to why this is happening?

Can you Attach a *.ipt file here that exhibits this behavior.

Someone else reported this a couple of years ago and the cause and solution was found, but I forget what it was.

Re: Offset Issue

lmc.engineering — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 11:25:37 GMT

Hi JD,

Well turns out it was a pebkac error. The issue is to do with that radius at the top of the profile. It has a perpendicular constraint to the mating line, so any attempt at offset will return zero. Expected behaviour. Apologies for the false alarm.