I'd like to be able to copy (and/or make an associative pattern) of a defined 'Preserve Regions' I have described in a model.   I'd like to be able to do this from one feature to another... or associativly from a feature to a selected collection or pattern of features.   Best, Brian Show More

While laboring away on this fine Monday morning, an idea struck me that could be incredibly useful for Inventor workflow (Or at the very least, how I use it). Namely, with making large compartmentalized assemblies/frames that need to be stuck together and otherwise match up, I've been leveraging making part files that exist only of sketches, and deriving specific sketches out into various parts. One good example, making a large cure oven with a frame created through Frame Generator and split into 4 main components, the oven frame, the support frame that it rests on (So we can disassemble it for shipping/installation), the cooldown section (Also removable), and the catwalk (Again, a removable, separate section). I've found that for applications like this, especially when they're really heavy on the Frame Generator, the most effective way to work was to make all these dependent sketches as one large .ipt with no geometry, and making derived parts carrying over the sketches that are needed for each section, which I then throw into an assembly to build the frames.   There are a few problems with this method, and places for improvement, so what I'm thinking would be a good addition would be an Inventor file type that exclusively consists of sketches and work features, it might make more sense to outline features I feel would be important.   For most purposes, is treated like an .ipt, but without the ability to do any '3D Model' commands However, treat sketches made in it less like features in a part, and more like parts in an assembly, ie. Folders, because making these huge sketch parts turns into a real mess when each "entity" may have multiple sketches to define its parts (Especially when using a combo of 2D and 3D sketches to make up for how finnicky 3D sketches can get), also being able to change visibility of entire sections would be nice Being able to 'derive' the various sketches into regular .ipt files, so they'd work as a regular sketch part would anyways. Heck, it might even be worth to translate every sketch included in the derive into a single 3D sketch for ease of use. Color overrides, while yes the formatting is nice, being able to set an entire sketch to just use an override for their "fully constrained color". Because contrast is a wonderful thing, but changing line format is nowhere near as useful as it could be since it also overrides the color of projected lines and the color applied to non-fully constrained lines, which are both pretty useful. Performing rectangular/circular/mirror patterns on entire 2D or 3D sketches, because what little pattern methods are available to sketches is still lacking compared to what can be done at the part level In that same vein, allow assembly-level feature patterns to use sketch components (Or blocks, or points along a sketch, I really don't care) as their feature to follow. I say this because feature patterns seem less fluid as they could be due to the fact that they can only pattern along geometry, and not say, a well-defined centerpoint or something of the like Being able to constrain straight to the sketches, pretty much like what can be done with 2D sketches, but extend to be able to do so with 3D sketches in the part as well. Because using 3D sketches to outline piping runs and whatnot would be much, much faster and cleaner if every point didn't have to have a work point and every line a work axis just to be able to place components along the guidelines For Design Accelerator assemblies, an option to take the color of their defining line would be very helpful too, as I've found that it's easier both on the design and fabrication side to use colors with large framework, ie. All outer frame is colored blue (With lighter hues indicating thinner tube, for at-a-glance identification), floor supports being brown, ceiling being red, wall supports being different colors unless their symmetric, etc... Same goes for tube and pipe runs though they might actually match their design color. I'm sure I can think up more, if not a way to do this on my own if I can hook into Inventor enough if Autodesk doesn't seem interested. Show More

We design our infrastructure projects on the Dutch local coordinate system. These are large values for x, y and z, see appendix. Modeling in Inventor you want to close to zero, base point. To be able to work with coordinates, I like to have a reference point with which coordination can be calculated. I think this also works in Revit. So modeling close to zero and calculate the coordination of movement. Show More

We have some iPart Member which we would like to be empty (all features suppressed). We are using formulas in a separate Excel sheet saying that if a parameter reaches a specific value, all features should be suppressed. Show More

Inventor provides an orthographic view and perspective view option. It would be nice if Inventor had a view option that would limit the size of objects as viewed on the monitor so they couldn't get bigger than real life size.   I am imagining a view where you could still zoom out as far as you wanted, simulating a scenario where you were walking away from a part in real life, but you would be limited on how far you could zoom in (or how close you could get to the part). Right now I can zoom in on a 1/4-20 screw to where one thread takes up my entire monitor. This has significant advatanges, but it also makes it slightly difficult to visualize the real life size of objects. Putting familiar references in the model such as a person or just a hand aid in getting a better understanding of the size of the parts being designed, but I still come across scenarios where I've designed an object and then see it finished in the shop a few weeks later and it is smaller or bigger than I was imagining.   So a handy view option would be one that does not allow you to zoom in any more once the part reaches its real life size on the monitor. Using the 1/4-20 screw example, the view option would let you zoom out (walk away) from the part as far as you wanted, but then it would stop allowing you to zoom in when the shank was physically 1/4" on the monitor.   I know monitors all have different pixel counts and I haven't thought thru how one would accomplish this, but I'm just posting the idea. Show More

I'd like to be able to easily modify the location and orientation of (index and move) a derived model at the time of placement and after placement.   I know I can use the Direct Edit toolset to accomplish this, but it's a bit cumbersome and after the fact.   Ideally, I'd like to have the same type of controls we have when placing a component in an assembly.... Only available during the Derive workflow.   Best, Brian Show More

This is a request from 2014 userr in japan called SHINKAWA. When you try to make amodel with mutiple sweep line, you can not generate the model at onece. you need to click other object with "Ctrl" button. want to make the model at onece. Show More

In every early design state we work with a single part file (multibody). Later we then create the parts and place standard components gears / engines and so on to this layout. What we miss is the possibility to create inside the first part profiles like tunes and Steelprofiles and change the size  easy. At the moment we work with a scetch block lib but changing is a pain. The biggest goal will be when we can create table driven Ifeatures per profile type. This works like a charme but Ifeature can not create new bodies 😞 ?? This as a option and the game will change 🙂 Another way can be to make the Content Center Elements table driven. Show More