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iCopy for Inventor
July 21, 2009, 08:36 AM Rob CoheeHow many times have you tried to convince your psychiatrist / monitor (don't tell me you don't talk to your monitor...) that all this assembly needs to be is exactly the same as this one, now just a little bit bigger...? Almost pleading with it, trying to rationalize the simplicity in the change you need. No, no, no Mr. Computer - don't change all of the instances of this assembly...just this one... please?
I had a viewer on my YouTube Channel ask me if I could upload my brain so that they could download the information. Read the paragraph above and tell me you want that in your head... Probably not. [grin]
So, to my point here. If you are creating assemblies that are essentially the same components, just different sizes of them then you need to try iCopy. Not a should, or maybe think about it...no - dude, download it, run through Garin's tutorial and try it out on one of your designs. Download it here http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/inventor_icopy/ then watch the latest episode of Rob Unscripted. You'll like the opening on this one.
-Rob
Comments
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July 22, 2009 03:34 AM Falk Massmann
Kudos, that´s great stuff. A BIG time-saver for standard subassemblies to distribute into your mainassemblies. Is icopy somewhat based on iassmeblies? Cause I wonder how it stores all the different versions? Thanks Rob for the introdcution, can´t wait for the other tutorial how to set it up. Cheers
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July 22, 2009 09:53 AM Rob Cohee
Thanks Falk. iCopy assemblies are not based on iAssemblies. iAssemblies are most often pre-defined configurations that you control in a table of sorts (as I'm sure you know..) the difference with an iCopy assembly is that the configurations are based off of the geometry of another part, and adjust while being placed into an assembly. iCopy makes new files during the placement and saves them in a folder similar to iParts. Another big advantage is that you can pattern the iCopy assembly during placement (not demonstrated here) but Garin had a good example of that in his tutorial.
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