How to roll up the dialog box in Inventor 2008
May 2, 2007 at 3:37 am 6 comments
You’ll notice in the new Autodesk Inventor 2008 that the pin icon is not being shown anymore in the dialog box. The pin icon in the previous releases of Inventor is used to roll up the dialog box so that you do not have to move the dialog box somewhere in the screen to be able to work conveniently. In Inventor 2008, you’ll just have to right click in the top bar of the dialog box and select auto-hide. Click here to view the screenshot.
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Garin Gardiner | May 7, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Great tip!
I actually posted this to the Autodesk Inventor “In the Machine” blog.
Thanks,
Garin
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karlaredor | May 8, 2007 at 12:01 am
I am honored to receive a visit from Autodesk
thanks Garin!
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Jerome | May 9, 2007 at 10:17 am
Nice tip Karla. Keep the flame burning.
Regards,
Jerome
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karlaredor | May 9, 2007 at 10:27 am
thanks Jerome
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Randy Van Nostrand | August 30, 2007 at 2:17 am
Your activities match mine but you are too young and I’m too married. Seriously I want to comment on the DWG True Connect in Inventor. I’m one of the long term AutoCAD users with five years of experience using the Mechanical Desktop add-on to AutoCAD. I am a Technical Illustrator working with commercial-off-the shelf equipment used in various complex assemblies for our Army customer. I have modeled many assemblies in the past years using Mechanical Desktop and translated lots of 3D models from a variety of other CAD packages to AutoCAD. Last month I took an Inventor Class and have moved to using it for modeling. I find it slower than Mechanical Desktop for basic modeling, but then I dream the Mechanical Desktop / AutoCAD commands and rework assemblies in my sleep, often finding errors and fixing them the next day. I find the Inventor link to DWG very clumsy and hard to use. I want to use mature 3D assemblies and parts in the work I am doing now but have had to resort to STEP translations and copying 2D vectors from AutoCAD, then pasting them on the sketch level in Inventor. I am learning a few tricks, like making two copies of the pasted in sketch so that one is available for cannibalization as I build an inventor part. Pasting the lines onto a sketch linked to a part, moving it to the proper orientation and then copying and pasting those lines to a new part file allows the resulting sketch to be aligned properly to the original part. That means that you can copy out pertinent vectors for production of multiple sketches on complex parts.
If you could point me to some info on bringing actual AutoCAD 3D models into Inventor I would be seriously grateful.
You rock!
Randy Van Nostrand