Inventor 2026.1 Multiple constraints Enhancement

[karthur1]

I got excited to see the team has added something along the lines of Kwiksert. Many thanks to Kent Keller (RIP) for this add-in.  One of the main reasons for Kwiksert is to insert fasteners (or anything really) where you would use the "Insert" constraint.  From what I can tell you still have to place the multiple instances of the component and then use the multi-select faces to constrain to a face.

This is quite different from Kwiksert.  Hopefully, I am overlooking something, but I do not see a way to insert multiple components using the insert constraint like we can using Kwiksert.  See attached video of how Kwiksert works.

[swalton]

Adding on...

I hope there is scope to add the multi-select to the first selection too.  I tend to rely on my old ProE/Creo habit where the first selection is the moving component and the second selection is the stationary one.  That workflow could work well with @karthur1's request.  Select the target surface on the bolt, then the target surfaces on the frame and Inventor populates the frame with a bolt model at every selected surface on the frame.

[SteveMDennis]

Kirk,

 Not everything we are working on made it into 2026.1!!!!  We are engaged and listening on this topic, constraints is one of the most complicated dialogs and commands and we tend to do a very thorough job to avoid breaking anything. Multi-select of the second selection and linking the parameters (the new Fx checkbox in the lower right) was the first step.

Things like place and insert are on our very near term radar, you know I can't say any more.

Steve,

  Adding multi - select for select one is certainly possible but Kwiksert didn't show us this workflow so it just never occurred to us I think.

[ChrisMitchell01]

There are more discussions around this on the Inventor Feedback/Beta Community - as Steve mentions we can't discuss futures here publicly.

Https://Autode.sk/InventorBeta.

Thanks

Chris

[karthur1]

Chris,

I searched the beta forum for "constraint", but did not find any discussion on this topic. Can you point me to where this is being discussed there?

Thanks,

Kirk

[ChrisMitchell01]

See here, or you can create a new topic too.

Hope all's well,

Thanks

Chris

[SharkDesign]

This is part of Kwiksert. Kwiksert had two modes, one was what you see here where multiple selections can be made and mated to the same face. The other mode was for INSERT which as you mentioned duplicates parts. I don't think there was a way to get the multiselect mode to insert new instances. 

This is as you say very exciting!!

[karthur1]

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@SharkDesign wrote:

This is part of Kwiksert. Kwiksert had two modes, .....

This is as you say very exciting!!

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Yes, I see that now. But I have never used the "Faces" mode. I always use it to insert multiple instances of a object.