Make a groups or a blocks in Part/2d sketch?

[Anonymous]

Can we make a groups or a blocks in Part/2d sketch? For example, I want to insert a profile from AutoCad in my sketch and to tell Inventor to make all of the lines fixed relative to each other. But not fixed to the plane of sketch, so I to be able to move (copy, dimension) that profile as a group or a block. That will be useful, otherwise I have to dimension a very complex geometry before do something with it instead to just turn it to block (group).

[mcgyvr · Accepted solution]

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2014...

You could also just use "auto dimension" and let it apply all the dimensions to fully constrain the sketch.. and leave it that way.. 

[Anonymous]

Yes, that is a desition. Thanks.

But than I will see a dense net of dimension lines which is unpleasant and annoying.

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! I am sorry I might be confused. I thought you could import AutoCAD blocks as Inventor Sketch blocks. Then each block would behave like a rigid body and there is no degree of freedom between the lines. Could you try it?

Many thanks!

[JDMather]

I think the autodimension was an alternative suggestion - not the primary suggestion.

If you convert it to a Sketch Block - you do not need to dimension the geometry within the block.

And even if you did autodimension the geometry and then convert to Sketch Block - all of the dimensions will then become invisible.

Give it a try and post back with example files if you can't figure it out.

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Hi savata71,

Another workflow that we've been recommending to user that need to include complex AutoCAD DWG files in their Inventor files (such as a large equipment layout, or factory floor plan, etc. ) is to Import the AutoCAD DWG as a reference object. This can provide some significant speed enhancements over the Sketch Block workflow. 

This might or might not be useful to you, but I thought I'd mention it in case you are working with layout type AutoCAD DWGs.

Import DWG

http://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2017/ENU/?guid=GUID-82BB9AFC-29FB-46B5-9720-EFDF1E76757D

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

[Anonymous]

The bad thing is that I am using Inventor 2009 and there are no sketch blocks there as far as I can see :).  

[Curtis_Waguespack]

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@Anonymous wrote:

...i am using Inventor 2009

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Please disregard my previous suggestion, as the tools I mentioned were first added to Inventor 2016.

[JDMather]

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@Anonymous wrote:

The bad thing is that I am using Inventor 2009 and there are no sketch blocks there as far as I can see :).  

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Oops, I missed that part of your problem description in the original post.  

9 years ago my hair was still black

Edit:

<-- hey, I think that picture was taken 9 yrs ago.

[Curtis_Waguespack]

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JDMather wrote:

9 years ago my hair was still black

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What year did you start dying it hot pink anyway?

[JDMather]

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@Curtis_Waguespack wrote:

What year did you start dying it hot pink anyway?

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I think that was a side effect of trying out shrimp sprinkles on my ice cream, never again will I listen to a Texan about food recipes...

[Curtis_Waguespack]

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JDMather wrote:

I think that was a side effect of trying out shrimp sprinkles on my ice cream, never again will I listen to a Texan about food recipes...

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