topic Re: Drag & Drop in Inventor Forum

Drag & Drop

Anonymous — Wed, 04 May 2016 21:23:33 GMT

You can drag and drop items in the browser so that order of the items can be changed to add additional features to model.

Is there any condition to do drag and drop?

Re: Drag & Drop

mdavis22569 — Wed, 04 May 2016 21:40:32 GMT

yes ..and you can move the end of part up too ( Edited to add, you can move the EOP up and down to add features etc)

I don't recommend it (edited to add, moving features/extrusions, holes etc up and down in the browser order) ...you can cause issues with other features once you start doing that

Re: Drag & Drop

JDMather — Wed, 04 May 2016 21:36:01 GMT

@mdavis22569 wrote:

I don't recommend it ...you can cause issues with other features once you start doing that

Don't recommend doing what. Moving the EOP? I routinely do that - several times a day to insert features I did not think about.

Re: Drag & Drop

JDMather — Wed, 04 May 2016 21:38:00 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Is there any condition to do drag and drop?

Don't use Projected Loops (created when using Project Geometry on a face rather than an edge(s).

And the usual parent/child relationships must be observed. (most beginners get hung up on these)

Re: Drag & Drop

mdavis22569 — Wed, 04 May 2016 21:40:52 GMT

No ..I don't recommend moving features up and down in the browser order ...

Sorry for the possible confusion that my 1st reply could cause

Edited it for ya ....

Re: Drag & Drop

Anonymous — Wed, 04 May 2016 21:50:32 GMT

What is meant by EOP?

This may be the shorten form of End of the Part. What does it mean in the browser?

Re: Drag & Drop

JDMather — Wed, 04 May 2016 21:44:20 GMT

End of Part - the red marker at the bottom of your feature history tree.

Re: Drag & Drop

mdavis22569 — Wed, 04 May 2016 21:45:44 GMT

Re: Drag & Drop

Anonymous — Wed, 04 May 2016 21:49:03 GMT

I watched a video that was moving a feature and adding additional feature to the model.

Re: Drag & Drop

mdavis22569 — Wed, 04 May 2016 22:03:48 GMT

Disclaimer, so I don't get a hate reply ... I know I didn't constrain the rectangles, I was showing the cut ..and how to move the EOP and add different features/cuts ... and then moving of the chamfer...

and I didn't want to make a 3 minute video

Re: Drag & Drop

Anonymous — Wed, 04 May 2016 22:03:54 GMT

I want to mirror these five points to other side. I wish to know is there any way to use Work Plane1 as a mirror.

Re: Drag & Drop

mdavis22569 — Wed, 04 May 2016 22:09:16 GMT

mirroring is different than moving and adding features .......attach the part ...

however if it's based on the origin ... you can mirror them about the plane

Re: Drag & Drop

Anonymous — Wed, 04 May 2016 22:47:01 GMT

What was the reason that we were able to use Work Plane1 as a mirror for Extrusion3 but not for Sketch8.

Re: Drag & Drop

mdavis22569 — Wed, 04 May 2016 23:00:29 GMT

because I don't know what Sketch 8 is ... I know if you modeled it about the midplane and want to mirror it about the midpoint/midplane/center ..then this would work ...

However it looks like it's working for you ... NO?

looking at the part now

Re: Drag & Drop

Anonymous — Wed, 04 May 2016 23:01:40 GMT

Here is the part model.

Re: Drag & Drop

mdavis22569 — Wed, 04 May 2016 23:11:55 GMT

you could mirror a lot of this all together.

Why do you have Sketch 8 ....then have another sketch with 8 shared into it....

I redid some of it .... and mirrored the holes and extrusions 3 and 4 with the holes. I arranged the holes slightly different and fully constrainted them

Re: Drag & Drop

Anonymous — Wed, 04 May 2016 23:21:45 GMT

I want to mirror points only not holes. If I mirror the points I can move it and then hole it as shown in the video.

Re: Drag & Drop

Curtis_Waguespack — Wed, 04 May 2016 23:20:18 GMT

Hi fiatnm,

I gave you an example of how to do this simply on this thread.

here is is again though:

Offset Pattern.ipt ‏123 KB

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

Re: Drag & Drop

mdavis22569 — Wed, 04 May 2016 23:23:28 GMT

I didn't see the video....

look at what Curtis offered too ...

this has gone from moving features in the browser ...to mirroring features to now mirroring sketches ....

Re: Drag & Drop

Anonymous — Wed, 04 May 2016 23:25:02 GMT

Problem is I am unable to understand your method.