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In The Machine is the official blog of the Inventor Product Management Team. It is a way for us to share Inventor news, interesting information about successful Inventor customers and partners as well as tips and tricks. From time to time we’ll also use the blog to solicit feedback from users via surveys. This blog is hosted by Garin Gardiner our Technical Marketing Manager.
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Open Profiles in Inventor
November 26, 2007, 01:46 PM Garin GardinerMany of us ore off to Autodesk University this week but I thought I would add a quick post holiday tip. If you won't be at AU this week stay tuned - I will be trying to post a few times throughout the week on what is going on this year.
Inventor supports the use of open profiles which can often result in faster creation of features as well as survive large topology changes that would often require clean-up with closed profiles. Take a look at the following image and notice we are using a rectangular base extrusion with a shell and a step inside. We also have a sketch that we want to use to add an additional extrusion although the lines don’t terminate at the base extrusion walls.
With the extrusion tool I will you can select the open profile and select the direction you want the profile to fill.
We might have a need to change the base shape from a rectangle to a circle. From past experience we all know this would require some clean-up with a closed profile since the base shape has changed. Since we created this with an open profile we can easily change the base shape without the need to re-define the additional features.
Enjoy!
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