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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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Termination Options
January 10, 2008, 02:11 AM Garin Gardiner
Happy New Year!
I know it is a little late - but they always say better late than never.
I wanted to post a few quick tips about a feature you all probably use daily - the extrude command. I know this is a fairly simple feature although there are a few things that you might not have used when using the extrude feature. When extruding to two different cylinders, you can use the termination "From/To" option and create a profile in the center to reduce the amount of steps required to create the following part.
You also have an option in the more tab to modify the Minimum Solution as well as the direction to get the desired results. Another area you can use this is in the revolve feature. In Inventor 2008 you can now create a profile and use From/To planes to terminate to.
You can also use the the Minimum Solution option as well as the direction to get simular results as the following image.
If you haven't used these options before, experiment a little - I think you will find useful areas to use them.
Garin
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