Comments on: How to roll up the dialog box in Inventor 2008 http://inventorph.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/how-to-roll-up-the-dialog-box-in-inventor-2008/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:34:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Randy Van Nostrand http://inventorph.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/how-to-roll-up-the-dialog-box-in-inventor-2008/#comment-4584 Randy Van Nostrand Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:17:47 +0000 http://inventorph.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/how-to-roll-up-the-dialog-box-in-inventor-2008/#comment-4584 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 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

]]> By: rockersworld.com » Featured in the Autodesk Manufacturing Community Newsletter http://inventorph.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/how-to-roll-up-the-dialog-box-in-inventor-2008/#comment-4581 rockersworld.com » Featured in the Autodesk Manufacturing Community Newsletter Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:50:24 +0000 http://inventorph.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/how-to-roll-up-the-dialog-box-in-inventor-2008/#comment-4581 [...] really an honor to be featured there. In fact, Garin Gardiner of Autodesk posting a comment on my Inventor blog already means a lot to me. :D. Before I received the newsletter in my e-mail, my colleage sent me [...] [...] really an honor to be featured there. In fact, Garin Gardiner of Autodesk posting a comment on my Inventor blog already means a lot to me. :D. Before I received the newsletter in my e-mail, my colleage sent me [...]

]]> By: karlaredor http://inventorph.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/how-to-roll-up-the-dialog-box-in-inventor-2008/#comment-1562 karlaredor Wed, 09 May 2007 02:27:47 +0000 http://inventorph.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/how-to-roll-up-the-dialog-box-in-inventor-2008/#comment-1562 thanks Jerome :) thanks Jerome :)

]]> By: Jerome http://inventorph.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/how-to-roll-up-the-dialog-box-in-inventor-2008/#comment-1561 Jerome Wed, 09 May 2007 02:17:27 +0000 http://inventorph.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/how-to-roll-up-the-dialog-box-in-inventor-2008/#comment-1561 Nice tip Karla. Keep the flame burning. Regards, Jerome Nice tip Karla. Keep the flame burning.

Regards,
Jerome

]]> By: karlaredor http://inventorph.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/how-to-roll-up-the-dialog-box-in-inventor-2008/#comment-1534 karlaredor Tue, 08 May 2007 00:01:55 +0000 http://inventorph.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/how-to-roll-up-the-dialog-box-in-inventor-2008/#comment-1534 I am honored to receive a visit from Autodesk :D thanks Garin! I am honored to receive a visit from Autodesk :D
thanks Garin!

]]> By: Garin Gardiner http://inventorph.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/how-to-roll-up-the-dialog-box-in-inventor-2008/#comment-1526 Garin Gardiner Mon, 07 May 2007 19:21:19 +0000 http://inventorph.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/how-to-roll-up-the-dialog-box-in-inventor-2008/#comment-1526 Great tip! I actually posted this to the Autodesk Inventor "In the Machine" blog. Thanks, Garin Great tip!

I actually posted this to the Autodesk Inventor “In the Machine” blog.

Thanks,

Garin

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