Help PLEASE!!!

[Anonymous]

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!

[TheCADWhisperer]

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

Are you familiar with the Split tool?

[Anonymous]

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

[TheCADWhisperer]

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.

[Anonymous]

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?

[TheCADWhisperer]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I need this done tommorrow morning!

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

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So you have a computer at home with Inventor installed?

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

[Anonymous]

Here it is

[TheCADWhisperer]

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

[Anonymous]

yes

[TheCADWhisperer]

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.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

It says that Gr.dll is missing

[Anonymous]

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

[TheCADWhisperer]

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

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

[JoyceZhou]

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,

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[TheCADWhisperer]

What version of Windows OS?

Did you install the Service Packs?

Did you Activate your free 3-yr student license?

[JoyceZhou]

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.

[Anonymous]

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