Hi Neil. I use Inventor every day but knew almost nothing about surfaces. I now know a bit more than I did. As for showing us the obvious stuff . . .people like me need to be shown so please carry on. ... What may be obvious to one person may not be to another. . . . Really happy with the style & content of these vids so please carry on. . . . . Jim
Hi Neil. You can indeed use Inventor's surfacing tools to do much more than patching up broken imports. Here's a link to a free Autodesk University class on the subject: au.autodesk.com/au-online/classes-on-demand/class-catalog/2015/inventor/cp10847#chapter=0 And here's a link to a tutorial series I wrote a little while back. There's a few new surfacing tools in Inventor since I wrote this, but the theory is still sound: cadsetterout.com/autodesk-inventor-surface-surface-modelling/ Enjoy!
Excellent, but I'm looking for how to unfold a surface!!. For example, I need to unfold a cylinder (without thickness) with a hole in order to make a cutting template. Isn't this function at Autodesk inventor??
Hi Neil! Thanks for your great video again. I've got a problem. I have an assembly and some sides of the assembly is manufactured so I should mark those sides with red or green colour. Is it possible to change the colour of certain faces in an assemly? With the adjust tool I can only change the colour of whole parts. :/
On a different subject, Can trig functions be used to drive dimension? I have looked in inventor help without any luck. Can you help me out or point me in direction to find information.
Just out of curiosity Is there a proper way to convert a solid to a surface? I know of several ways to do this but they all seem a bit hackish ( delete a face without healing, copy the file and derive as a surface)
Time stamp, for anybody who needs that:
Stitch: 2:36
Patch: 4:01
Sculpt: 4:51
Ruled surface: 6:32
Trim: 7:44
Extend: 9:12
Replace face: 10:14
Fit Mesh Face: 12:01
Extra:
Repair bodies: 14:04
Find errors: 14:22
Unstitch: 15:04
Stitch: 15:32
Transfer surface: 15:41
Boundary patch: 16:46
Intersect faces: 17:02
Boundary trim: 17:29
Extend faces: 18:39
Edit regions: 18:53
Extract loop: 19:17
Reverse normal: 20:01
Brilliant as always, loving this series. Cheers my son.
Hi Neil. I use Inventor every day but knew almost nothing about surfaces. I now know a bit more than I did. As for showing us the obvious stuff . . .people like me need to be shown so please carry on. ... What may be obvious to one person may not be to another. . . . Really happy with the style & content of these vids so please carry on. . . . . Jim
Seriously you doing great job bro ... You would get recognition sooner ... Please do more videos !!! Our support always there for you :)
Great as always - Thanks TFI. Have you ever thought to create Nastran video series - it will be an entirely new field and you will be the first.
cant wait for your simulation buttons video mate
love your content
Hi Neil.
You can indeed use Inventor's surfacing tools to do much more than patching up broken imports.
Here's a link to a free Autodesk University class on the subject:
au.autodesk.com/au-online/classes-on-demand/class-catalog/2015/inventor/cp10847#chapter=0
And here's a link to a tutorial series I wrote a little while back. There's a few new surfacing tools in Inventor since I wrote this, but the theory is still sound:
cadsetterout.com/autodesk-inventor-surface-surface-modelling/
Enjoy!
Excellent, but I'm looking for how to unfold a surface!!. For example, I need to unfold a cylinder (without thickness) with a hole in order to make a cutting template. Isn't this function at Autodesk inventor??
Back on "pushing the right buttons " i see. 😁
Hi Neil! Thanks for your great video again. I've got a problem. I have an assembly and some sides of the assembly is manufactured so I should mark those sides with red or green colour. Is it possible to change the colour of certain faces in an assemly? With the adjust tool I can only change the colour of whole parts. :/
You should be able to change your select button to faces. Select the faces then right click and change the colour in properties.
On a different subject, Can trig functions be used to drive dimension? I have looked in inventor help without any luck. Can you help me out or point me in direction to find information.
Just out of curiosity Is there a proper way to convert a solid to a surface? I know of several ways to do this but they all seem a bit hackish ( delete a face without healing, copy the file and derive as a surface)
Can you not just save it as an IGES? . If it's part of an assembly just open the part and export as IGES ?
When you rotate around parts how is it so fluent?
using a 3D mouse
...wait slow down I can't follow......I'm kidding. And I thought Stitch was a Disney Movie....hahaha. Fun stuff here.......said no one ever.....