Need Advise on Project Setup

[vicshandywork]

Hello everyone I need advise on the correct way to setup a project for custom furniture. I am testing the Inventor trial. I know the recomended way is to start with general layout. I tried making one leg and reusing it but when I have problems to rotate leg and each copied leg is not independant. I would like the steps I have to follow.Thanks

[Anonymous]

Welcome to the forums! As a general tip, include your working files so we can see your attempts and offer suggestions. Based on your post, it's difficult to tell what operations you're using so we can't say how to fix them.  My suggestion would be to check out the tutorials. IV has some good basic stuff for understanding how it deals with individual parts and sub assemblies, along with common with working through common operations.

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/getting-started/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/201...

Hope this helps.

[PaulMunford]

Hi Vic,

I recommend that you look into 'Top Down' design. You might find this link helpful :
http://cadsetterout.com/inventor-tutorials/autodesk-inventor-assembly-techniques-for-woodworkers/

I also recommend that you check out the Inventor for Wood workers plug in:
http://www.woodworkforinventor.com/

[JDMather]

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@vicshandywork wrote:

...I have problems to rotate leg and each copied leg is not independant. I would like the steps I have to follow.Thanks

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Without an assembly - I am going to take guess at what you did.

My guess is that you did a circular pattern in a part file.  That would be 4 solid bodies, not 1.

A part is a part in Inventor, just like in the real world.  If you want 4 instances of a part - you place those in an assembly.

or

you did a circular Component Pattern in an assembly.

A pattern is a pattern - if you don't want a pattern then place each instance of the component individually.

[johnsonshiue · Accepted solution]

Hi! I suspect you possibly use Component Pattern to replicate the legs, right? If yes, you could make them independent by right-click on each non-source occurrence in the browser -> Independent Occurrence.

Thanks!

[vicshandywork]

I thank you all for the replies which I will try to follow. I will Make legs independant to see the results. Thank you all.