Paint allowance in Autodesk Inventor 2015

[Anonymous]

Hi

Does anyone know if its possible to add a 0.5mm powder coat allowance over selected parts. At present im working with mild steel and I need to take into account the fact powder coat will reduce tolerances

[CCarreiras]

Hi!

You can add the thickness to represent the powder coat.

If you chose multibody, you will have the coat and the part.

[Anonymous]

Will give this a go thanks for the help. Will update the thread if I manage to complete it

[Anonymous]

Im struggling to find the multibodies command in my part file?

[JDMather]

Multi-body is simply part of the feature creation process.

Select Thicken and the New Solid option of Thicken (or Extrude, or Sweep, or....)

Another technique is to Derive Component as a Surface Body and then Thicken.

[JDMather]

Did you figure this out?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Yeah thanks figured it out now 😄 its under the split/combine/thicken ribbon