New to Inventor (2023) - How to work on an angled plane with non-perpendicular directions (e.g. for extrusions)

[jmwTinkerCAD]

I'm new to Inventor, but I have a part I'm trying to make.

I know I can sketch and sweep and cut to get this correct, but it makes sense that there's a better, smarter way to handle it.

I have a button that needs to be inset into an angled face. However the button needs to be extruded at what would be 90º from a standard XY plane. If I drop a work plane, the extrusions will be 90º from it, rather than up and down.

Attached is a diagram.

Thanks!

[gerrardhickson]

Welcome to Inventor!

A basic sweep (without cutting anything) ought to do it.

I think the screenshot below matches your sketch... The sweep has the orientation options - the first will maintain the angle between the profile and the path throughout the path even when it curves, the second option will keep the profile parallel to the start plane even if the path curves.

Give that a try and report back.

[pcrawley]

Can you use your paper as the sketch plane, and extrude like this?

[CCarreiras]

Hi!

You can sketch the profile in the orthogonal plane and extrude the profile between two planes (or faces), in this case between a face and a plane.

you have to create the work plane, in this case, a plane parallel to the face with an offset.

[JDMather]

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@jmwTinkerCAD wrote:

I'm new to Inventor… 

I know I can sketch and sweep and cut to get this correct, but it makes sense that there's a better, smarter way to handle it.

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Go ahead and model as best you can and then Attach your *.ipt file(s) here.

Someone will demonstrate the most efficient/robust technique using your actual geometry.

[jmwTinkerCAD]

The problem I had with sweeps (for this instance) was that any other extrusions created from the plane take a perpendicular angle to the plane, meaning that the other work I had to do became a bit more complex. It's workable, thank you.

[jmwTinkerCAD]

I was not familiar with the ability to put a reference image in. I'll have to look into this.

[jmwTinkerCAD]

I quite like this solution as it means I don't have to do custom-angled sweeps for every extrusion modeled on the angled plane. I'll test this solution, thank you for the idea.