AutoCAD Inventor :: How To Hide Dimensions In Sketches

Aug 20, 2012

I'm working with a series of 3D sketches. Some sketches must remain visible as reference. While creating the sketches, the dimension call-outs grow too distracting from the linear sketches. Is it possible to hide, or toggle off/on the dimensions while leaving the sketch geometry visible?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Hide Dimensions In Sketch Mode In Drawing Environment

Sep 28, 2012

I was giving a hand drawn wiring diagram (original.jpg) and it is a rats nest!!

I was asked to re-draw this and put it on our drawing template.

I have the plugs and terminal blocks drawn up and now I am about to attempt to add in the wires, but the sketch is so filled with dimension lines and values, it is going to be a task to try and make sure every line I draw is correct. This would be much easier to do if the dimensions could be turned off as the wires I am drawing will not be constrained.

I don't think there is layers options inside a sketch mode, or a if i start a new sketch I don't think I can project that sketch to the new one?

The only other options I can think of was to delete all dimensions and apply FIX constraint to everything! or

I guess I could have modeled the plugs and blocks in position and added them to the drawing, projected the geometry to a new sketch and added in my wires??

There must be someway to toggle the dimensions??

Inventor Professional 2014-Update 2 - AutoCAD Electrical 2014
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AutoCAD 2013 :: How To Hide Dimensions On Drawings

Oct 11, 2012

How can i hide the dimensions on the drawing in autocad 2013....screen is cluttered so hiding the dimensions will keep the screen cleaner.

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Dec 19, 2011

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Combining 2D And 3D Sketches

Dec 13, 2012

What instances is it necessary to combine 3d sketches with 2d sketches, I have used this combination a few times where I have to build rectangular frames then apply frame generator to the sketches to construct the frame members. I was told when I originally had training on Inventor 2013 that 3d sketches should be avoided where possible.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Fit Sketches Into A Rectangle

Sep 23, 2011

I want to fit a sketch that is to be laser cutted. i wanna fit 30 pcs on a rectangle, is there a tool who figures out the most optimal way to fit them in a rectangle?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Inserted Hole Dimensions Not Matching Feature Dimensions

Mar 16, 2012

I typically as much as possible like to insert my dimensions into my drawing from my model.

I created holes in the model as a 1/4" tapped hole

Yet when I show the dimensions in the drawing they show the minor dimension.

How do I get the 1/4" to show?  I have selected the feature and still get these results.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Functionality Of Assembly Sketches?

Oct 7, 2011

I have the following (somewhat philosophical) question: what is the concept of assembly sketches? As far as I can see (and what I use it for) is the following: an element of my design can be constructed from several parts, which are first machined with some margins, interfaces for welding, etc. Then they are mounted/welded/brazed together, and the final piece is constructed by post-machining the mounted (welded/brased/etc) assembly. Assembly sketches drive these features.

When I first got in contact with assembly sketches, I believed they can be used to positioning parts in the assembly: create a sketch, very easily and quickly draw lines/points/etc which serve as anchor points for the parts, and then constrain the parts to these lines/points/etc. But this does not work - whereas I would find it sometimes useful.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Moving Sketches Between Parts?

Feb 8, 2012

I've been making a model plane model in inventor 2012 from imported IGES geometry, and Realised that my sketches were not assigned to any part (and thus can't be lofted). Is there any way of moving the sketches to the newly created part without redrawing everything? I've tried dragging and dropping because it seemed to make sense, but alas, that had no success.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Uncheck Get Model Sketches In IDW?

Nov 5, 2012

Once I check to show model sketches I cannot set it back since it getting inaccessible.

how to set it back to not show the sketches?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: 2D Sketches In Drawing File?

Mar 20, 2012

Quite often we cretae schematic line drawings for clients approval before creating full 3D models for production. Is it possible to achieve this in Inventor and maybe go on to use the sketches as a master filoe to drive the design? Or should I continue to get approval based in AutoCAD and then switch over to Inventor?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Cannot Edit IPart Sketches

Dec 19, 2011

I have been trying to create an ipart. Once the ipart is created i am un-able to edit the sketches of features with issues.

I need to modify a sketch and to create an alternate sketch (suppress/unsuppress) but get an error message when i try to edit the sketch.

Windows 7 64 bit
Inventor 2012 Professional
Dell T1600 CPU E31245 @ 3.30GHz
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AutoCAD Inventor :: How To Document Frame Sketches

Sep 15, 2013

I have created a frame using the frame generator that I need to document. It is created using about 5 sketches. The sketches are part of their own .ipt file. Now I would like to document the frame but cannot figure out how to do it. I have tried creating sections of the frame but I cannot snap to points of interest on the frame, such as where two pipes meet, when dimensioning. How do I document the sketches?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: How Do Representations Handle Sketches

Sep 18, 2013

I'm trying to employ a technique that I've used with SolidWorks.  I'm working on a project with several engineers doing design work on a large assembly.  The way I've seen this handled in a SolidWorks shop is to create a master assembly with sketches on the principal planes that define envelopes for sub assemblies, interface dimensions, and so on.  Each engineer can have the master assembly in their sub assembly, as a guide.  Where I've used this before, it has worked with integrating the sub assemblies later on.

Here's the complication:  There are several different "families" of the product that require different dimensions on the master sketches.  What I had hoped to do in Inventor was use view representations or level of detail representation to control the visibility of these "families" of master sketches.  When an engineer includes the master assembly in his sub assembly he could then easily turn on the "family" he wants to see.  But it turns out that neither view representations nor level of detail representations influence the visibility of sketches.  (Position representations don't, either.)  Sketches are either visible or not visible, regardless of which representation you're in.

Is there some way I can control the visibility of sketches, in groups?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Skeletal Sketches And Copy

Oct 29, 2012

we very often create parts/assemblies using skeletal sketches, problem we encounter is that when we use the copy command in the components area on the ribbon.

The problem we have is that when we open the new assembly and components they are still looking at the original skeletal sketch. is there anyway to copy the orginal skeletal sketch to a new one and the new parts look at this upon using the copy.

At present what we do is make a copy and rename the original file. Then open the assembly and it looks for the original skeletal sketch, so we point it at the new skeletal sketch.

This is not an issue when we have a couple of parts in an assembly but if you have a lot of parts in the assembly it si very time consuming.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Dimensioning Angles In 3D Sketches

Oct 4, 2013

In the course of working up a tooling proposal, I attempted to replicate a 3D part from a customer print. While doing so, I noticed that 3D Sketch will not, under any circumstances that I can find, allow an angular dimension between a line and a plane. The customer print has two pipes projecting at odd angles from a base flange, one of which has an elbow. The print lists datum dimensions for the open pipe ends and the elbow, and gives vertical and horizontal angular dimensions to define the directions in which the pipes emerge from the flange. I have defined these three datum points in 3D space without any trouble, but Inventor 2013 will not allow me to define an angle between these sketchlines and the XZ and YZ origin planes, or between these sketchlines and the faces of the flange base I've constructed.

I am currently waiting on a proper 3D CAD model from the customer, and I'm considering longhand trigonometric calculations to place these lines properly, but I find it very hard to believe that Inventor is incapable of constraining a line to lie along what is effectively the surface of a cone.

Using:
Inventor 2013
AutoCAD 2013

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Lines Not Closing In 2D Sketches?

Mar 12, 2012

I'm having issues when I create sketches using the line tool.  I should be seeing constraints as I create them and a green dot when the object is closed.  This is not the case however, and when i attempt to extrude or offset the sketch I can only select individual lines. 

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Cannot Edit IPart Sketches

Dec 19, 2011

i am working on an ipart. I have a spreadsheet with all the data and used the first line to creat the first part.

no problem.

i can add the remaining information to the table from the spreadsheet.

When returning to the drawing environment i can select a few parts that work and there are many more with "issues". So i move the first offending part select it and try to edit it.  ( i know what i have to do to the sketch if i could just get into it)  Also i have suppressed a sketch and inserted a new slightly different version (the issue) but, after getting out, i am un-able to edit this new sketch either.

the message comes back and says i cannot edit this part, and then....

unable to prepare the part for edit, updating your part is required to all the edit, update now?

Windows 7 64 bit
Inventor 2012 Professional
Dell T1600 CPU E31245 @ 3.30GHz
8 GB RAM

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Rendering Sketches With Images

Jul 23, 2012

I am trying to render some images and video of a design I've been working on.
This isn't an absolute necessity, but I would like to have my companys product and logo displayed on the monitor in the design. If you look at the screenshot what I'm trying to describe should come clear.

These images were just dropped into a sketch on the face of these two monitors.

When I go to render, the sketch image does not appear. It just renders the default face color of the part.

Is there something I'm missing?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Visibility Of All Workplans And Sketches

Jul 24, 2012

As I learn more about Inventor I have been doing more and more skeletal modeling. It work well for what we build here. But the biggest problem is the visibility of all the workplans and sketches. I know of the buttons to turn them on and off, but everytime I make a sketch and edit a sketch, inventor default turns all of them on. Making it impossible to see what you are working in the assembly enviroment. Not only that, it bogs down my machine untill I turn them off. Same goes for workplanes, if I create one the rest appear.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Get Model Sketches Inactive?

May 13, 2013

In my section view, Get Model Sketches is inactive (greyed out; see attached).

It was OK up until recently, but now it would not show any sketches no matter what I try to do.

I would hate to recreate the view again.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Loft Using 3D Sketches For Rails

Apr 16, 2012

I have a part that I'm trying to loft using 3d sketches for the rails will this work? Everything is fine till I try to add the rails, As you can see the loft works with out the rails.

Windows 7 x64
IV 2012

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Cannot Get Model Sketches On All Models In Drawing?

Nov 26, 2013

I am making a control console with a bunch of plastic tags on my pilot devices. I use the sketch text tool to write the label on each tags.

When comes the time to make my drawing, I get my model sketch and they show on my 2D, no problem.

Well today, it seems Inventor 2014 just gave up on giving me my sketches. Here is the console view of of the lid with the tag texts showing:

Now let's go over the second lid on the same plan and get my model sketch to see the rest of my text.

Click on it and ....

Nothing! still no text.

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Intel Core i7-4930MX CPU @ 3.00GHz
32.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @1600MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4GB Ram
240GB SSD/500GB HDD
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AutoCAD Inventor :: Save And Import Sketches From One File To Another?

May 28, 2004

I just wanted to know if you could make sketches in one part or file, somehow save it with a name, then open a new or existing part file and import that saved sketch. Is there a way to do this? Also, can you make blocks, as we could in AutoCAD, in Inventor?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Ghost Sketches After Using Bolted Connection

Aug 20, 2013

One of my parts had "Invalid origin/axis" problems and I got all my visible aketches fixed. But I have what I call "ghost" sketches left from bolted connection updates, erasures etc.  I can get rid of the visible points but cannot access the sketches to erase them.

The red + sign showing irritates me and I want rid of it.

I have attached the file, 2014 version, some of the adaptive features may not come thru or they may work better on another computer, who would know.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Finding All Sketches Defined By A Plane

Jul 26, 2013

VBA routine that will allow you to select a work plane in the browser and find all sketches that are defined by it.  We do extensive skeletal modelling and our master parts consist of many sketches and sketch planes

Note, I am aware of the VBA routine that allows you to select a sketch and highlight the plane or surface that it is made off of.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Projection Of Surfaces In Drawings (Not Sketches)

Nov 5, 2012

I wish to display an Assembly as a Drawing. 

However when the Base view is created it also displays surface geomerty created for referencing. 

I attach a PDF which shows this.

Even though these are hidden in the respective Part files, they keep showing up in the Drawing and I cannot find a way to hide them.  How to stop this from happening? BTW I am using Inventor 2013.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Access Sketches And Features Information

Jun 23, 2012

- when modelling a part file in Inventor, only the dimensions we set (dimensions we give a name and a value), are listed in the parameters table. This way, its possible to export the information listed in that table. 

- the information listed in the parameters table is based on sketches and features dimensions, as obvious.

So , my question is: is it possible to access the information (dimension values) contained in a feature (or a sketch) without setting a specific name or value to it?

For example, in the attached pictures, if a rectangular form is drawn and the dimensions are sett, these will be listed in the parameters table (see attached  "pic1" and "pic1 - params").

But, in the other hand, if the same rectangular form is drawn, but this time without setting any dimension, the parameters table will be empty, obviously (see attached  "pic2").

After this, i can surely presume that Inventor saves or keeps this information somehow, somewhere, without having to set dimensions or values.

So, my question is: is it possible to access sketches and/or features information without setting this values?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: 2D Line Snapping Over 2 Separate Sketches

Mar 21, 2013

What I am trying to do is line snapping over 2 stetches.

I am working in 2D sketch mod, I am basically drawing square boxes on one sketch (in black) and then on another sketch (in orange) drawing connecting lines.

Right now I am having to maually look to see the distance, but is there any way to line snap over 2 sketches?

On a side note, When a drawing is finished, is there any way to scale it up or down?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Radii In 3D Sketches - Arc / Line Interfaces

Apr 27, 2012

Trying to put a fillet on a 3D sketch?

I have a corner interface that is made up of an arc to a straight line...and can I heck as like put a fillet on that corner.

Is it possible or just a facility that doesn't work on arc/line interfaces?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: How To Derive Part From Two Other Parts (sketches)

Aug 12, 2013

I often use a number of parts with only one sketch in them as templates for other parts.

I have for instance a template part with a top view sketch and a template part with a side view sketch.

Mostly I can use one of these template parts to derive my parts.

But now I want to creat a part that needs both the top view and side view sketches. So I need to derive from two different parts.

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