topic Re: Help PLEASE!!! in Inventor Forum

Help PLEASE!!!

Anonymous — Wed, 18 May 2016 22:26:13 GMT

I am somewhat new to Inventor, and for school I need to make a checkerboard. My teacher says he would make a bunch of squares all on a single base, and extrude them all by 1/32, 2/32, and so on, stopping at 8(it is a 8 square by 8 square board). I have had problems extruding just one square, and was wondering if there is an easier way to make this. Please help! I need this done tommorrow morning!

Re: Help PLEASE!!!

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 18 May 2016 22:36:57 GMT

Attach the *.ipt file of what you have attempted so far.

Are you familiar with the Split tool?

Re: Help PLEASE!!!

Anonymous — Wed, 18 May 2016 22:32:06 GMT

Not at all, could you explain the rest of this method?

Re: Help PLEASE!!!

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 18 May 2016 22:44:00 GMT

Took me 5 minutes.

Attach your attempt here.

I think you better ask some more questions before you mark as solved.

I suspect that I used tricks that you haven't been taught.

Re: Help PLEASE!!!

Anonymous — Wed, 18 May 2016 22:44:20 GMT

sorry but I am not on the computer with it, that computer is at school. I am pretty sure I can access it from home though. If I find it, I will put it. In the meantime, could you explain how you did that?

Re: Help PLEASE!!!

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 18 May 2016 22:46:45 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

I need this done tommorrow morning!

sorry but I am not on the computer with it, that computer is at school....

So you have a computer at home with Inventor installed?

If so, what version? 2015? 2016? 2017?

Re: Help PLEASE!!!

Anonymous — Wed, 18 May 2016 22:52:02 GMT

Here it is

Re: Help PLEASE!!!

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 18 May 2016 22:55:44 GMT

Q1. Do you have Inventor on your computer at home? Yes? No?

Re: Help PLEASE!!!

Anonymous — Wed, 18 May 2016 22:58:35 GMT

yes

Re: Help PLEASE!!!

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 18 May 2016 23:06:39 GMT

Start a new part file.

Start a new sketch on the XZ plane.

Sketch a center point rectangle at the Origin Center Point and dimension 12x12.

Extrude the rectangle in the -Y direction 1inch.

Attach the new file here for inspection and next instruction.

Re: Help PLEASE!!!

Anonymous — Wed, 18 May 2016 23:10:10 GMT

it says "The program can't start because Gr.dll is missing"

Re: Help PLEASE!!!

Anonymous — Wed, 18 May 2016 23:11:15 GMT

It says that Gr.dll is missing

Re: Help PLEASE!!!

Anonymous — Wed, 18 May 2016 23:15:10 GMT

Can you just post the instructions and I can do it at school tomorrow?

Re: Help PLEASE!!!

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 18 May 2016 23:16:53 GMT

Post back when you are in front of a computer with Inventor running.

I will walk you through the proccess step-by-step.

Re: Help PLEASE!!!

JoyceZhou — Wed, 18 May 2016 23:17:44 GMT

Hi,

Could you go to "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 20xx\Bin" to check whether there is GR.dll?

And could you recall whether you have some action in this folder?

Is Inventor workable before, and suddently not work recently?

Thanks,

Re: Help PLEASE!!!

Anonymous — Wed, 18 May 2016 23:18:22 GMT

I will be able to at about 8AM CT tomorrow, ok?

Re: Help PLEASE!!!

Anonymous — Wed, 18 May 2016 23:22:44 GMT

There is one. I was able to use Inventor about 2 months ago, but now it is not working

Re: Help PLEASE!!!

TheCADWhisperer — Wed, 18 May 2016 23:25:17 GMT

What version of Windows OS?

Did you install the Service Packs?

Did you Activate your free 3-yr student license?

Re: Help PLEASE!!!

JoyceZhou — Wed, 18 May 2016 23:26:25 GMT

It seems the Gr.dll might have been removed mistakenly.

If you have other machine with identical operation setting and identical Inventor version installed, you could try to copy and paste the Gr.dll to the Bin folder and check whether Inventor works again.

If it doesn't work, you might have to reinstall the Inventor build.

Hope this helpful for you.

Re: Help PLEASE!!!

Anonymous — Wed, 18 May 2016 23:26:45 GMT

I have windows 7, i did activate my student license, not sure about the service packs