topic Re: Shaped Centre Lines in Inventor Forum

Shaped Centre Lines

MikeKovacik4928 — Tue, 02 May 2023 16:25:45 GMT

How do get a center line to follow a shape, ie as if you were offsetting a continuous line in a sketch.

I don't want all those overlaps I got using the centre line command where you can only select a single edge and then its opposite edge. I want to select a whole series of joined tangential lines as my first selection and then another

series of joined lines as my second selection. Like I said, almost like the offset command and then making the offset a chain line.

I can do this in a sketch, but want to know if there is particular center line command or way of using it

to produce the same effect

Mike Kovacik

South Africa

Re: Shaped Centre Lines

mluterman — Tue, 02 May 2023 17:58:39 GMT

I would do that in a sketch, but not in the .dwg view, I would do it at the .ipt level, this way it always stays (and is linked) with the part. Then, in the .dwg, click "Get Model Sketches" (in Part Priority) and "Include" in the Browser Tree to see it in your .dwg view (as long as the plane that contains the sketch is parallel to the sheet plane of the .dwg).

Re: Shaped Centre Lines

cadman777 — Tue, 02 May 2023 17:09:34 GMT

Amazing that this stupid drafting defect still hasn't been fixed in well over a decade. How sad! 🤡

Re: Shaped Centre Lines

mluterman — Tue, 02 May 2023 17:58:13 GMT

Yup!...and that's why I can't bear to visit the Ideas Forum.

Re: Shaped Centre Lines

MikeKovacik4928 — Tue, 02 May 2023 18:12:26 GMT

Thanks

I will give that a try

Mike

Re: Shaped Centre Lines

cadman777 — Tue, 02 May 2023 22:29:24 GMT

Ha, good reply! Yup, they created that worthless idea forum after I quit giving them good advice. I quit b/c I realized they don't give a rip about our expert opinions. All they give a rip about is their investor profits. We end users are their 'picking field' for revenues (stock ratings). That's how all bureaucrats and business people look at us corporate slaves. Leeches...social parasites one and all!

Re: Shaped Centre Lines

mrB_Young — Tue, 02 May 2023 22:39:14 GMT

Your comment made go look at the ideas forum ... I see where you're coming from