Dear all!! - if you're looking for a good computer to run Inventor, you may then be interested to know that I have now developed and released the worlds most comprehensive FREE benchmarking test for Autodesk Inventor with a global online leaderboard. See the announcement video here th-cam.com/video/Xck3lvuMRjM/w-d-xo.html and check out the leaderboard here invmark.cadac.com/#/ - all designed by me, Neil Cross TFI.
Right on! Thank you for actually saying out loud how non-intuitive some of the functions are in Inventor. As a newbie, it's comforting to know it's not just me missing something obvious. Not sure if I will ever need to use 3D Sketch but I am so glad to know what something I really wondered about is for explained in plain language. Autodesk needs to implement a Press-F1-for-Neil function because their existing F1 is pewp. Thanks, man!
Oh yes! now i know how to use this! I been using inventor to my work everyday works but i didnt to atempt to use that 3d sketch. now i know i will try that for sometimes. Thanks Fellows for your kind sharing this techniques.
A brilliant tutorial for beginners. Would be more helpful if we could get an detailed tutorial about the tools in the 3-D sketching and how to use them.
Thanks! AutoCAD Electrical is something I've intentionally dodged over the years, it's an awful program. We're actually completely replacing it with EPLAN in my company, Autodesk have shown zero interest in developing AcacE so we're ditching it and moving on to a proper solution.
Thanks for the response and recommendation man! I shall have a good look at EPLAN. The reason that I was considering AutoCAD electrical is that it's somehow compatible with Inventor, and create the physical model in inventor based on the design in autocadE. The application I'm modelling is an EV, so I was looking for a solution that could save me time sketching all the cables( 3D sketch maybe lol), wires and connectors. I don't know whether EPLAN is capable of doing this.
Great video! I had an application for this and you explained it so well. I will probably watch it 10 times and take notes. Great service to us professional Autodesk users.
Excellent! EXCELLENT!! Subscribed, enjoying all of your great tips, tricks and presentations. Thanks for the most helpful efforts...both thumbs up in much respect and appreciation!
That was helpful. I just spent half a day trying to get a 3D frame for a rack made of wire. I got nowhere. Tomorrow I'll try again and I may be able to get the part done. Thanks.
This was helpful. As far as tutorials go, this was useful, which is more than can be said about a lot of other online technical tutorials...Thanks, CloudCAD Ltd
Excellent video. It certainly helped me understand 3D sketching a bit better in Inventor (using Inventor 2015). Explanatory, good pace, easy to understand. A little quiet in my opinion though.
+Jordan Loar Thanks, yea the audio was recorded on a cheap Turtle Beach headset microphone... all my later and recent tutorials are done using a pro studio mic so the audio is crystal clear with no music either
I wondered about that music! Sitting at my desk I pulled off my headphones to see who was playing it. Since I didn't comment on it before, it must not have bothered me too much; too busy exploring the mystery of 3D sketches.
Hi! I'm a student and I just started working with Autodesk Inventor and I love it! What would your biggest advice be to me if my goal is to become an absolute expert on Autodesk Inventor as fast as possible? Btw your videos are great!
Very good tutorial vid. Down to earth and practical. I've struggled the last few months with 3d sketchs in Inventor. I've come from ProE, which is difficult, and solidworks which is easy for 3d sketchs. The many articles I have read on the subject failed to mention little things like like selecting the planes on the Triad. Simple whenj you know but impossible to fathom when you dont. One thing that I'd like a little more knowledge on would be the include geometry feature. Why cant you select origin work features? Or can you? Keep up the good work. PS I like the music.
Since I am deaf, I can't hear the "stunning" background music, as some comments seem to suggest. LOL. However, the video seems to be very clear with the help of subtitles captions. I need to practise some of this tips. :p Thanks for you efforts, you make engineering sound cooler, like the math language, sometimes is more mysterious and frustrating than should be lol
+Andre Pedroso Oh my word, I apologise profusely if you watch these videos with subtitles enabled! I have the most dreadful English accent and I'd be very very surprised if the auto-captioning recognises most of what I'm saying!
loki665zx9 Hey! Sorry for the delay. The offset plane is done by just holding the left mouse button down on the existing face/plane and dragging away from it. Easy as that!
+Joao Carvalho You're welcome! Thanks very much for the message, this is an old video now but I'm glad it's still helping people out. Hello to Portugal too, I just yesterday bought some computer parts from Portugal! Random fact of the day there!
Hello, there...!!! What coincidence, man...!!! From which city did you buy the parts? I am learning Autodesk Inventor and I love it... Do you have some more videos...? :) Best regars, once more: João Carvalho.
+Joao Carvalho It was bought online, but they're being sent from a place called Bidoeira de Cima? The company is called ColdZero and they're a small online shop that sell custom PC parts! Well as it goes I uploaded my 100th video today so there should be plenty to chose from!
Thank you, for your feedback... The name of the place (Bidoeira de Cima), I don´t know but I will see... I do believe that the last video you posted/uploaded has a lot to be learned... I will try to find it and others that you posted, to see and learn with... I would like to have your videos directely in my mail box! Do you see some possibility? If yes, I can send my e-mail. Thanks a lot. Regards: Joao Carvalho.
+Joao Carvalho If you're subscribed, you should get email notifications sent to your email when I post a new video, if that doesn't work then have a look at your TH-cam settings as it definitely does work for other people!
great video! very easy to understand. Only thing is my Triad is not oriented as yours. My Z is going front to back and X is left to right, Y top to bottom. Not sure why, its set to default.
Great videos. Could you do one on sketching on multiple planes in 3d space and applying constraints to those sketches to create rails for Loft? I'm having a hell of a time. I can use constraints no problem on a single plane but they don't seem to have the same properties when there are multiple planes in 3d space. T-spline handles can't be manipulated either. I am clearly doing something wrong!
Great tutorial Subscribed & Liked. If I may say so, you are definitely a dynamic and interesting enough of an instructor that you could lose the background music - it's a bit distracting & annoying. Otherwise - 5 stars & Thanks!
+silversurfstudio Thanks man! The more recent videos that I've done and all future ones don't have background music now. The fact that it was getting mentioned by a number of people, some liked it, some didn't, meant it was a thing and it shouldn't be a thing, so it's now gone!
Very good video, thanks for posting it this really clarified my understanding of 3d sketching. One thing that I was looking for in the video, was if I can create a sketch on a plane that I can then extrude to a cylinder, so that I can have one cylindrical part, and a separate part that would essentially attach to the cylinder so that I can maybe glue the two pieces together on the tangeant, do you have another video that shows that kind of use for 3D sketch?
Jason Wright Yea what you're you're trying to do their isn't a 3D sketch requirement. If you do a 2D sketch on a plane and you're extruding to a true cylindrical face, that'll be an emboss you want to do. That'll terminate the extrusion on the cylindrical face and wrap it around. Alternatively, if it is a separate part, it should really be done in an assembly as a separate part too!
Thanks always thought it was the UI that let down 3d sketching in Inventor down as I use solidworks too and found it easier with that at first.I would say there would be some interest in the new freeform tools as they seem to have given us more options or confusion=)
Ha I was wondering who would be the first to pick up on that! Been playing that for nearly 10 years so I thought I'd bring a little bit of my hobby into my work ;)
Hello, I am trying to draw a wreathed handrail. The handrail profiles are not always circular, so I am trying to keep the top of the handrail horizontal while stile using the spline and sweep function. Please help
i have a problem when i will to make ( for example ) a lign with the 3D triedre . When i make a lign , the lign take automatically the direction of one lign of the triedre and not in any direction : why , where is the problem .Thanks
As always great video, keep it up. How do you offset the the YZ Plane so quickly, I know the shortcut for doing it on a flat surface but have never seen it done so quickly on your existing plane without making it visible then un selecting the visibility after. Please help.
good video. How important is to have a basic drawing course, before trying to learn Autodesk Fusion or Fusion 360. Is there a book of homeworks for drawing 101, where students can begin to learn how to draw in in general, and then later learn 3D in Autodesk or CAD???
+Alberto Ratmiroff Autodesk Fusion and Fusion 360 are the same thing. And what you've just watched here isn't Fusion! This is Autodesk Inventor, you could say it's the original 3D package from Autodesk and the big brother of Fusion. There may be books out there that teach general drafting skills but I've never had any contact with them, the best option is to decide which software program you want to specialise in and self teach yourself. Whether you go for 2D or 3D will depend on which industry you want to work in
Many thanks..i have always wonder how 3D skecth was supposed to work..being used to a more intuitive way of 3D sketching from solidworks, i would curse at my computer every time i tried 3D sketching on inventor
Daniel Drouillard Cheers :) All my videos are recorded in 1080p with the more recent ones at 60fps. Did you hit the cog button under the video and change the quality? It should be crystal clear at 1080p but can be slightly compromised if downscaled to suit a different resolution (whatever you're viewing it at).
Can you give some advice on how to constrain in 3D? I am having trouble with dimensions and constraints switching sign. When I try to further constrain the sketch I receive an error that the sketch is over constrained.
Well covered. Can you tell me if there is a way to connect the 3d sketch point (start line) to existing geometry? Or can you tell me if there is a way to project geometry or a point to a plane perpendicular from the projection as opposed to perpendicular to the work plane. I am trying to get from a obscure angle plane to a set plane.
Winston Beshore Thanks! Firstly, yes you would use 'include geometry' which is on the 3D Sketch panel whilst you're 3D sketching. The second one, it's difficult to visualise what you're trying to do without seeing it... but you could try the various 'project to surface' options available within 3D sketching?
![How to 3D Sketch [v2.0] 2017 | Autodesk Inventor](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/OcZ0hLnoxAM/mqdefault.jpg)
Dear all!! - if you're looking for a good computer to run Inventor, you may then be interested to know that I have now developed and released the worlds most comprehensive FREE benchmarking test for Autodesk Inventor with a global online leaderboard. See the announcement video here th-cam.com/video/Xck3lvuMRjM/w-d-xo.html and check out the leaderboard here invmark.cadac.com/#/ - all designed by me, Neil Cross TFI.
Finally an Autodesk tutorial that isn't done in broken English! Excellent job explaining everything too
Bryan Draper Thanks! My accent is arguably broken but I try and put on my poshest telephone voice! ;-)
Right on!
Thank you for actually saying out loud how non-intuitive some of the functions are in Inventor. As a newbie, it's comforting to know it's not just me missing something obvious.
Not sure if I will ever need to use 3D Sketch but I am so glad to know what something I really wondered about is for explained in plain language.
Autodesk needs to implement a Press-F1-for-Neil function because their existing F1 is pewp.
Thanks, man!
You just taught me everything I know about 3D sketch, thanks
Oh yes! now i know how to use this! I been using inventor to my work everyday works but i didnt to atempt to use that 3d sketch.
now i know i will try that for sometimes. Thanks Fellows for your kind sharing this techniques.
Remembered this from 4 years ago needed it today. Thanks!
A brilliant tutorial for beginners. Would be more helpful if we could get an detailed tutorial about the tools in the 3-D sketching and how to use them.
What a great video
your channel is the best. best vids for inventor I wish I can find someone like to that teach AutoCAD electrical.....
Thanks! AutoCAD Electrical is something I've intentionally dodged over the years, it's an awful program. We're actually completely replacing it with EPLAN in my company, Autodesk have shown zero interest in developing AcacE so we're ditching it and moving on to a proper solution.
Thanks for the response and recommendation man! I shall have a good look at EPLAN. The reason that I was considering AutoCAD electrical is that it's somehow compatible with Inventor, and create the physical model in inventor based on the design in autocadE. The application I'm modelling is an EV, so I was looking for a solution that could save me time sketching all the cables( 3D sketch maybe lol), wires and connectors. I don't know whether EPLAN is capable of doing this.
That was wonderful tutorial. Very understandable, funny, stunning background music. Thank you for this video.
softs it was really confusing but thanks to you I've gotten more professional at it!! ✌
Excellent! Learning and laughing. Will look for all your tutorials.
Great video! I had an application for this and you explained it so well. I will probably watch it 10 times and take notes. Great service to us professional Autodesk users.
Rick Williams You're welcome! I'm open for suggestions for new videos too as long as they're not too bespoke and will be useful to a lot of people :)
Thanks for elaborating on the sketch's. Very informative and helpful to me
Thank you man. you help me a lot in 2019. =]
Brilliant, completely understood your tutorial! Really well done :o)
Very fun video and very informative! I kept having to pause it to take notes! I can't always say that.
David Mack Hey thanks man, appreciate it. If you're new to Inventor and have nay requests, let me know.
now i am in a good mood
I lIke the way you did this video...very easy to follow and understand. Keep em coming.
BROTHER, YOU ARE THE BEST!!! You oooh really helped me!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!This is cool, well done!
Excellent! EXCELLENT!! Subscribed, enjoying all of your great tips, tricks and presentations. Thanks for the most helpful efforts...both thumbs up in much respect and appreciation!
Thank you. I have some books and videos about inventor training but I'd never find a good explanation about the 3D sketching.
That was helpful. I just spent half a day trying to get a 3D frame for a rack made of wire. I got nowhere. Tomorrow I'll try again and I may be able to get the part done. Thanks.
Very useful video... The music playing background is also very good. Thank you so much :)
Best tutorials i've found so far
This was helpful. As far as tutorials go, this was useful, which is more than can be said about a lot of other online technical tutorials...Thanks, CloudCAD Ltd
I learn a lot from all your videos, thanks a lot
I was wandering if you can show us how draw a rising dovetail?
cheers
Just wanted to express how helpful your videos are!! you are extrely good at explaining tNice tutorialngs in-depth but still at a basic level for
This still good today
screen in the top left, look at where it says program and click on where it says “aggressive te” and change it to “analog app 1 te”
Excellent video. It certainly helped me understand 3D sketching a bit better in Inventor (using Inventor 2015). Explanatory, good pace, easy to understand. A little quiet in my opinion though.
+Jordan Loar Thanks, yea the audio was recorded on a cheap Turtle Beach headset microphone... all my later and recent tutorials are done using a pro studio mic so the audio is crystal clear with no music either
I wondered about that music! Sitting at my desk I pulled off my headphones to see who was playing it. Since I didn't comment on it before, it must not have bothered me too much; too busy exploring the mystery of 3D sketches.
Thank you a lot! Great help hope to see much much more of these
Your videos are really good and super educational! :)
Keep up the good work!
very clear explanation....much appreciated......Thanks much..
Excellent video, super clear explanation of hidden tricks - many thanks :)
handy for resetuping s or creating karaoke tracks. Thanks for the recomndation!
Nice tutorial.... Very helpful
Very very good tutorial! Learnt what i needed. Thank You!
Quick question:
After i have my 3D sketchdone
how can i modify it?
thanks
Great job man!
Hi! I'm a student and I just started working with Autodesk Inventor and I love it!
What would your biggest advice be to me if my goal is to become an absolute expert on Autodesk Inventor as fast as possible? Btw your videos are great!
Very good tutorial vid. Down to earth and practical. I've struggled the last few months with 3d sketchs in Inventor. I've come from ProE, which is difficult, and solidworks which is easy for 3d sketchs. The many articles I have read on the subject failed to mention little things like like selecting the planes on the Triad. Simple whenj you know but impossible to fathom when you dont. One thing that I'd like a little more knowledge on would be the include geometry feature. Why cant you select origin work features? Or can you?
Keep up the good work.
PS I like the music.
Way better than my Inventor videos 😅
Since I am deaf, I can't hear the "stunning" background music, as some comments seem to suggest. LOL. However, the video seems to be very clear with the help of subtitles captions. I need to practise some of this tips. :p
Thanks for you efforts, you make engineering sound cooler, like the math language, sometimes is more mysterious and frustrating than should be lol
+Andre Pedroso Oh my word, I apologise profusely if you watch these videos with subtitles enabled! I have the most dreadful English accent and I'd be very very surprised if the auto-captioning recognises most of what I'm saying!
Thanks - fun & easy learning! (I wish You said how did You offset the plane so quickly - shortcut or something).
Great tutorial!
loki665zx9 Hey! Sorry for the delay. The offset plane is done by just holding the left mouse button down on the existing face/plane and dragging away from it. Easy as that!
Good lesson, as aways . . . Now I need to know how to make a conical screw, or a screw conveyor with a conical cylinder . . . could you help me ?
great content mate! very informative.
I would like to thank you for the tips you gave in this video!!! I learned a lot with it. Congratulations!!! Best regards: João Carvalho - Portugal.
+Joao Carvalho You're welcome! Thanks very much for the message, this is an old video now but I'm glad it's still helping people out. Hello to Portugal too, I just yesterday bought some computer parts from Portugal! Random fact of the day there!
Hello, there...!!! What coincidence, man...!!! From which city did you buy the parts? I am learning Autodesk Inventor and I love it... Do you have some more videos...? :) Best regars, once more: João Carvalho.
+Joao Carvalho It was bought online, but they're being sent from a place called Bidoeira de Cima? The company is called ColdZero and they're a small online shop that sell custom PC parts! Well as it goes I uploaded my 100th video today so there should be plenty to chose from!
Thank you, for your feedback... The name of the place (Bidoeira de Cima), I don´t know but I will see... I do believe that the last video you posted/uploaded has a lot to be learned... I will try to find it and others that you posted, to see and learn with... I would like to have your videos directely in my mail box! Do you see some possibility? If yes, I can send my e-mail. Thanks a lot. Regards: Joao Carvalho.
+Joao Carvalho If you're subscribed, you should get email notifications sent to your email when I post a new video, if that doesn't work then have a look at your TH-cam settings as it definitely does work for other people!
Love the WoW music! :p
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Great video! Really well explained.
Very nicely done. Thank you sir!
Sehr gutes Video, danke
great video! very easy to understand.
Only thing is my Triad is not oriented as yours. My Z is going front to back and X is left to right, Y top to bottom. Not sure why, its set to default.
Very helpful! Thank you for your time!
Great videos. Could you do one on sketching on multiple planes in 3d space and applying constraints to those sketches to create rails for Loft? I'm having a hell of a time. I can use constraints no problem on a single plane but they don't seem to have the same properties when there are multiple planes in 3d space. T-spline handles can't be manipulated either. I am clearly doing something wrong!
Great tutorial Subscribed & Liked. If I may say so, you are definitely a dynamic and interesting enough of an instructor that you could lose the background music - it's a bit distracting & annoying. Otherwise - 5 stars & Thanks!
+silversurfstudio Thanks man! The more recent videos that I've done and all future ones don't have background music now. The fact that it was getting mentioned by a number of people, some liked it, some didn't, meant it was a thing and it shouldn't be a thing, so it's now gone!
more videos on 3D sketching please......thank you
really well explained
Much appreciation.
Love it!!! Thanks.
Very good video, thanks for posting it this really clarified my understanding of 3d sketching. One thing that I was looking for in the video, was if I can create a sketch on a plane that I can then extrude to a cylinder, so that I can have one cylindrical part, and a separate part that would essentially attach to the cylinder so that I can maybe glue the two pieces together on the tangeant, do you have another video that shows that kind of use for 3D sketch?
Jason Wright Yea what you're you're trying to do their isn't a 3D sketch requirement. If you do a 2D sketch on a plane and you're extruding to a true cylindrical face, that'll be an emboss you want to do. That'll terminate the extrusion on the cylindrical face and wrap it around. Alternatively, if it is a separate part, it should really be done in an assembly as a separate part too!
Thanks always thought it was the UI that let down 3d sketching in Inventor down as I use solidworks too and found it easier with that at first.I would say there would be some interest in the new freeform tools as they seem to have given us more options or confusion=)
WoW intro - I press like
Cheers,
That was a brilliant tutorial.
Very helpful as always!! Thanks!
Thanks for a great tutorial!
Is there a book for working with 3D sketches. I have Inventor Books 2015, 2016, and 2017. And none of them contain this information.
Thanks, very useful videos like always.
Thanks for the tutorial, helpful for a newbie to this program :) Also I like the WoW song in the background, hehe.
Ha I was wondering who would be the first to pick up on that! Been playing that for nearly 10 years so I thought I'd bring a little bit of my hobby into my work ;)
I was surprised noone did ha. Been playing the same time myself, and also been playing those tunes while working. I can appreciate it!
VEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERY helpful video. Nice music too. Thanks a lot!!
Thanks for the help,
Hello, I am trying to draw a wreathed handrail. The handrail profiles are not always circular, so I am trying to keep the top of the handrail horizontal while stile using the spline and sweep function.
Please help
i have a problem when i will to make ( for example ) a lign with the 3D triedre . When i make a lign , the lign take automatically the direction of one lign of the triedre and not in any direction : why , where is the problem .Thanks
As always great video, keep it up. How do you offset the the YZ Plane so quickly, I know the shortcut for doing it on a flat surface but have never seen it done so quickly on your existing plane without making it visible then un selecting the visibility after. Please help.
Excellent!!!! BRAVO
good video. How important is to have a basic drawing course, before trying to learn Autodesk Fusion or Fusion 360. Is there a book of homeworks for drawing 101, where students can begin to learn how to draw in in general, and then later learn 3D in Autodesk or CAD???
+Alberto Ratmiroff Autodesk Fusion and Fusion 360 are the same thing. And what you've just watched here isn't Fusion! This is Autodesk Inventor, you could say it's the original 3D package from Autodesk and the big brother of Fusion. There may be books out there that teach general drafting skills but I've never had any contact with them, the best option is to decide which software program you want to specialise in and self teach yourself. Whether you go for 2D or 3D will depend on which industry you want to work in
thanks bro, it's more easier now
My first ti ever gettin on soft soft was in 17 man it a whole year to use to soft soft
When I select the plane it just highlights it and won't bring me to the actual sketch menu.
My Inventor 2015 "Professional" does not have the down arrow for the 3D sketch option. Is it somewhere else inside the software?
Great tutorial.. I 5 Stars ..my Regards from Venezuela .. !
Whenever I use GMS, it softs notNice tutorialng like yours, even though it has the sa settings... It's just a buzzing noise. Weird.
well explained... bravo
my invetor does not show those yellow planes? when i start a part it seems to be 2d only in xy plane? how do i get to other planes?
Brill video. Thanks very much!
Hello. I don't understand something.
WHen I draw triangel in 3d, I can't face it... why?
Thanks very much. Good stuff.
Many thanks..i have always wonder how 3D skecth was supposed to work..being used to a more intuitive way of 3D sketching from solidworks, i would curse at my computer every time i tried 3D sketching on inventor
Could you please show how to draw a golf ball in 3D. 42.7mm dia, with 2.5 mm dimples all over. Thanks!
Very informative, thanks. Video was a little fuzzy. Any way to sharpen it up?
Daniel Drouillard Cheers :) All my videos are recorded in 1080p with the more recent ones at 60fps. Did you hit the cog button under the video and change the quality? It should be crystal clear at 1080p but can be slightly compromised if downscaled to suit a different resolution (whatever you're viewing it at).
Got it. Probably my settings. I will check into it when I get a chance. Thanks
Can you give some advice on how to constrain in 3D? I am having trouble with dimensions and constraints switching sign. When I try to further constrain the sketch I receive an error that the sketch is over constrained.
Well covered. Can you tell me if there is a way to connect the 3d sketch point (start line) to existing geometry? Or can you tell me if there is a way to project geometry or a point to a plane perpendicular from the projection as opposed to perpendicular to the work plane. I am trying to get from a obscure angle plane to a set plane.
Winston Beshore Thanks! Firstly, yes you would use 'include geometry' which is on the 3D Sketch panel whilst you're 3D sketching. The second one, it's difficult to visualise what you're trying to do without seeing it... but you could try the various 'project to surface' options available within 3D sketching?
thank you very much❤
How would you make a 3d sketch solid/have surface? Is it possible?
God bless you mate
Awesome, thank you very much!
Very good video :)
Thanks alot.. 😊😊
No... thank u very much..... I like it allot :).... i'm learning to much from u... i dont think you talk 2 much :):).... have a nice weekend..
(Is there any way to do pattern within 3D sketch? (i mean pattern for sketch geometry not features
good clear tips n tricks more of the same please....beats autodesk..