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FRAME GENERATOR - NOTCH

aravind_koder — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 03:02:30 GMT

Hi Experts

What's the proper way to remove the material after the notch operation.

Is there any proper command or operation or just extrude cut?

Thanks

Aravind

Re: FRAME GENERATOR - NOTCH

SharkDesign — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 05:26:06 GMT

Double click the part to edit in place.

The use delete face command in lump mode.

Re: FRAME GENERATOR - NOTCH

CCarreiras — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:54:49 GMT

Hi!

I use DIRECT tool for some situations (it's similar as DELETE FACE tool, but i like it more).
A problem that can occur in some situations is the member wrong nomination.
If you notice in the video below, the member has 1000mm at the beginning of the process, and stays with the same 1000mm at the end of the process, which is not the true value, and this can create some problems in the part list.

(view in My Videos)

So, in this case the proper way to do it is: first resize the member, then apply notch to obtain the proper member dimension in the part list.
Take a look on the video.

(view in My Videos)

The member starts with 1000mm, but at the end of the process it gets the true value, which will be reflected in the part list, so in production, it can be cut with the correct start value and then execute the notch operations.

Re: FRAME GENERATOR - NOTCH

aravind_koder — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 02:07:14 GMT

@CCarreiras

Thanks for video. I will try this.

I have another issue with notch. It gives that radius at the end.

Inventor takes the member's measurement from the tip of the radius and make them separate items in the Cut list.

Please see the screen shot. Item 26 is supposed to be Item 14.

Is there any solution for that.

Re: FRAME GENERATOR - NOTCH

aravind_koder — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 02:09:12 GMT

@SharkDesign

Hi SharkDesign, what's the lump mode. I am hearing the word for the first time.

Please can you explain.

Re: FRAME GENERATOR - NOTCH

SharkDesign — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 06:29:48 GMT

It's in the delete face, I might be called solid mode or something. There's two icons to select the mode it works in, one removes faces, one removes bodies.

Re: FRAME GENERATOR - NOTCH

CCarreiras — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:24:19 GMT

I believe parts 26 and 14.2(in the image below) are equal parts, and they are different from part 14, right?

Sometimes the system doesn't recognize very well this numbering and can group members based only in the length, despite the parts are geometrically different, so, they should be treated as different parts with different item numbers.

Therefore, the correct item number should be something like:

To have this result, we can help the software to recognize which parts can be grouped with the same item number (equal parts).

In this case i would delete the member "14.2" and repeat the 26 using the tool REUSE:

REUSE will force to group equal members present in the model.
Here's an example:

(view in My Videos)