AutoCAD Inventor :: Depth Of Extrude Feature
Nov 30, 2012
I want to query the depth of an extrude feature in a model from a drawing file - I've got access to the feature from the drawing file, but I'm struggling to find the correct method to query the extrude depth.
I can see I can get Faces / StartFaces / EndFaces from which I could do some evaluation on - however, StartFaces.Count is 0 (not sure why) EndFaces.Count is 1 (seems logical) and Faces.Count is 9 on a simple rectangular extrusion of depth 10mm.
In reality the extrusion could be any shape, any depth and either a set depth or through all.
Am I on the right tracks with evaluating the Faces collections? Or is there an easier way to get the depth ?
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Sep 6, 2012
I'm trying to modify the depth of extrusion feature "Extrusion1".
As you can see, it doesn't let me. It only allows the extrusion setting "new solid".
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Aug 22, 2012
Why I cannot create a extrude feature for the sketch3.
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Mar 4, 2013
How to check the direction of an existing extrude feature
kPositiveExtentDirection
kNegativeExtentDirection
kSymmetricExtentDirection
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Dec 9, 2011
I am a beginner when a extrude a feature and select a part surface for new sketch now i want is to offset that surface but i can,t there is + sign with mouse icon and something like fully constrained is written in down the window.
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Dec 29, 2011
When using "Hole and Thread Feature Note" to annotate a counterbore in an IDW, I can add the parameter for the counterbore depth (red circle in the attached screen capture), but the symbol is not available in the symbol drop down list (blue arrow).
Seems like an oversight that the parameter is available but the symbol isn't, especially when the symbol is used for the parameter toggle. Is there a way to add it to the drop down list?
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Jul 15, 2013
In the drawing, i annotate a thread. the automatic text for thread depth is always, as far as i see, incorrect, for example if the thread depth is 50 it writes, i don't remeber, but something like 250.
Maybe it has to do with the font, altough i doubt. i am in israel, and the quantity of threads, also an automatic text, is written backwards, for example 4x instead of x4.
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Feb 2, 2005
When I try to edit the section view depth my only choice is full. The depth is grayed. Is there a setting to turn on to allow this operation?
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Jun 8, 2012
DRAWINGS: I need to prepare a plan view of a complex part, which incorporates many different (parallel) heights. In the drawing, all of these faces are parallel to the plane of the drawing itself. There are far to many of them to show their heights using section views. The usual drawing convention in this case is to simply indicate each face on the drawing, and then express its height relative to a reference plane.
Until now, I have been doing this simply by measuring a height from the part, and then indicating it on the drawing by adding leaders and text, which:
1. Is extremely laborious
2. Obviously has no intelligent link to the actual part/drawing
My breadth of knowledge in CAD is not huge, but I know that in Gibbscam, for example, after setting the position of the origin in 3 planes, if I then pass the cursor over any parallel plane in the z direction while pressing alt, I will get the distance of that plane from z=0.
What I want is the possibility in Inventor to select a face in a drawing, which is in the same plane as the drawing, and straight away be given it's height relative to a parallel reference plane. Such a value should then update intelligently on the drawing if I modify that same height on the part.
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Apr 30, 2013
Not able to change the units of tap drill and depth in .idw.
My part is in inch and the style too, is it a bug or a setting? I don't know...
Even if I change the style, custom of default, always the same.
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Sep 4, 2013
I'm making a tube that is connected on another tube. I did this by skeleton modeling, for my tube extrusion i used Extrude To surface.
Is there any way to get the length of that extrude?
I know its possible to get the sweep length like this. Is there a way to get the extrude length as well?
'Set a reference to the active part document
Dim oDoc As PartDocument oDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
Dim oDef As PartComponentDefinition oDef = oDoc.ComponentDefinition
Dim opath As Path opath = oDef.Features.SweepFeatures.Item("TheSweep").Path
Dim TotalLength As Double TotalLength = 0
[Code]....
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Oct 10, 2011
I cannot extrude a 2D shape that is drawn by lines.It appears to be linked but is not .I can see the problem saying not a closed loop or a constraint but don't know how to fix it.
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Jul 30, 2012
I drew a round part and want to cut a hex on an external feature. I have done before but for some reason that escapes me it always seems difficult....
How can do this more easily?
Inventor 2014 PDS
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Oct 17, 2013
So I started on this project recently and was not the original modeler. This section of pipe has some problems where I'm guessing a sweep went wrong. I've tried everything I know to do to try to fix this section but haven't had any luck.
- This model has no tree and is shown as one soild "base"
- I tried to extrude cut the bad section
- I tried spliting the bad section
- I exported the file as an IGES and then tried to remove bad section
I'm sure there are some other round about ways I tried that I can't think of but in the end nothing has worked.
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Aug 20, 2012
I'm using the extrude tool so that the rectangle that I'm extruding (downwards) will taper (and become thinner at the bottom). However, when I do this, even as a fraction (.01) it seems to get bigger at the bottom. How do I make it thinner at the bottom, not bigger?
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Aug 13, 2013
I was watching on of the "Sales" videos on Autodesk.com. I saw them extruding a part surface to another surface of an imported part. I have a need to do this. When I try to extrude my part, I cant pick the surface that I need it to go to.
The video I am watching is here. Its titled "Native Translators". They show the surface being extruded at about the 0:53 mark.
The problem that I have is while working in the assembly, I double click on my part to edit it in the assembly. Next I chose Extrude and "To Next", but I am unable to pick the surface I need it to go to. The surface is in another part that is in the assembly. The part I am trying to extrude is adaptive, like in the video.
I did notice that in the video, when they pick the "to Next", the add/cut/intersect is greyed out.
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Jan 9, 2013
I know my subject is somewhat mis-named, because I gather that you cannot really extrude from a 3D sketch, however I am looking for a way to accomplish what extruding a cut from a 3D sketch would accomplish.
The problem is this: I have a simple 2D sketch that I've projected onto a curved surface (imagine a square projected onto the outside of a hollow cylinder). Now that I have a 3D sketch on the surface of the cylinder, I want to use that sketch as a "cookie cutter" through one wall of the cylinder.
If I were to simply extrude the cut from the 2D sketch, the "cookie" is wider at the edges than at the center. I want the cut to be perpendicular to the projected 3D sketch at all points.
I've attached a simple example that illustrates my problem.
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Jul 12, 2013
how i can extrude as shown in attached PDF.
Ive tried offset plane, sketch and extrude through all, but nothing seem to work.
The diameters im trying to extrude through are Ø177.4 to Ø141.7.
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Apr 19, 2012
I can't extrude this piece. I know i have loops but i don't know where and how to fix them!
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Mar 28, 2012
Sometimes after I have created a sketch I can not extrude it, sometimes it wont let me click on the profile, other times it will only let me cut away material not add it like I would like. I am sure it has something to do with something fundamental I am doing wrong within the sketch, but I am not sure what.
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May 14, 2013
Right now I am trying to model a concrete embed plate. The design calls for 1/2" round steel embeds at the contour of the line in the attached image. What is the best way to extrude this line into a 1/2" DIA dowel? I have tried the revolve command and sweep command without any luck... I know the sweep command would probably work the best but I can't seem to draw a 1/2" dia circle perpendicular to the line.
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Jul 7, 2013
I'm fairly new to the world of CAD, and I was just working on a phone case for my friend when I tried to extrude geometry text, but couldn't because the OK and Apply options were greyed out. I tried embossing and making a hole, but they were greyed out for them too. I tried messing with the settings to see if I could fix it, but I still couldn't. I'm really confused right now, I remember doing something similar for a case I made for myself.?
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Nov 11, 2013
I am creating a fan wheel (see attached). The fan blade needs to be extruded to the inside surface of a 2 piece cone assembly. To make it even more difficult, the inner portion of the blade needs to be cut at an angle so that the extrusion ends at the cones. See attached pdf reference sketch. The result for the flat pattern blade edge should be two parabolic curves.
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Jun 15, 2013
I'm using a template file (part with just a drawing in it) for the basis of a few parts.
In one of these parts I use the template sketch for an extrude. After that I would like to use it again for some other extrude.
But I can not reference the drawing again. Normally I can 'share'a sketch. But somehow a sketch from a template file can not be shared. How can I use the template sketch for a second extrude?
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Oct 18, 2011
I created this flange and I need to cut it from the extruded tube, but I'm having some trouble.
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Jan 15, 2013
Is there any way in inventor to use one extrude cut feature on two different solids at the same time?
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Nov 2, 2011
Extrude command is great, no doubt. But, I wish it was possible to extrude bidirectional. One side to a specific value & the other side up-to-next.
Inventor Professional 2013
Vault Collaboration 2013
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Apr 4, 2013
Can’t extrude in assemble drawing in inventor when I draw a sketch and finish sketch
And try to extrude the sketch it extrudes but only in cut mode it is the only button that is working the rest are all faded out.
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Dec 27, 2011
I wonder if I can extrude a .igs file in inventor 2012. I had been trying with the thicken/offset feature but it didn't work, the program get stucked when I use this tool. The thing is I am trying to convert a surface to solid with volume.
I attached the .ipt file(compressed as .rar) where I opened the .igs file to work on it.
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Apr 27, 2012
I have a cylinder that has for lack of a better word, a zig zaged slot milled into the outside of it thru to the bore. I am unsure how to go about drawing this so I can get it to extrude correctly around the part.
From other cad software history, I could draw it on a straight plane and tell it wrap around the part of whatever diameter. But, since I have not attempted this in Inventor I don't know if this exists.
Just for reference, this is a twist lock device. Turn the cylinder, advance a key the is inside the zig zag advancing or retracting the part that is inside the bore attached to said key.
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Jan 27, 2012
I have what I am sure is -not very complicated- part that has a goofy intersecting angle. I have created a plane for this angle to try and do the cutout but it extrudes at the 30 deg, where as I would like to extrude that 30 deg feature at 90 deg. Is this possible?
The RED text says "Currently extruding this way" (30 deg per the plane)
The BLUE text says "Want to extrude this way" (90 deg, in line with the from face basically)
Inventor 2014 PDS
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