Derived Solid components leave behind their feature identifications. Remember the thread data still passes through. ...Read the rest of this article...
Inventor – Derived Solids pass on thread data
Inventor – Top Down Design and Multi Body Parts
Multi-body modeling provides a new layer of possibility to Top Down Design. Check out some simple features that make it a great solution for weldments and other close-fit assemblies. ...Read the rest of this article...
Inventor – Top Down Design and Passing Parameters
See why Parameters are at the heart of Top-Down Design, and some general points for new implementation Updated July 14th ...Read the rest of this article...
Fusion – and the Jealous Change Manager
Fusion does an impressive job on Assemblies and multi-body parts. Inventor on the other hand gets quite jealous… In this article I’ll discuss some things regarding the Fusion/Inventor interaction regarding multiple component files. I tried to push the limit on what it was designed to do and kept hitting the wall. This article is the result. The Inventor/Fusion functionality Simplified Inventor starts the Change Manager when a Fusion DWG file is opened. It then opens [...] ...Read the rest of this article...
Publish Content for Bolted Connection Part 3
Content Center Category Review We need do some snooping. We need to know where we are publishing the content. The Countersunk Bolts Category is our target. It would be ideal to publish our content to the sub category of ‘Wood Screws’ but alas, this cannot be. You see the Design Accelerator has a limitation (I’ve heard this before….limitations), in that it will not use content below a certain sub-category. The Bolted Connection Generator will [...] ...Read the rest of this article...
Inventor – Derived Part Color
When a new Part is created it is given a ‘Default’ Material, per the Application Settings, and subsequently the Color style of that material. All the features of the part appear like the PART material. When a Derived Component is then inserted into that PART, the Derived Body’s color is not controlled by the PART, but instead by itself. That color is a non-dependent Color Style, whose initial state is derived from the color style [...] ...Read the rest of this article...
Derived Part Color
When a new Part is created it is given a ‘Default’ Material, per the Application Settings, and subsequently the Color style of that material. All the features of the part appear like the PART material. When a Derived Component is then inserted into that PART, the Derived Body’s color is not controlled by the PART, but instead by itself. That color is a non-dependent Color Style, whose initial state is derived from the color style [...] ...Read the rest of this article...