AutoCAD Inventor :: Keyway Generator Giving Incorrect Sizes?

Jul 29, 2013

I am using the keyway generator to place a keyway in a hub and shaft, but the depth of the keyway (and the height of the associated key) is not right.

I am using an 18mm and a 20mm dia shaft, both of which should use a 6mm wide by 6mm high key according to the ISO standard. [URL]

But Inventor gives me a 6mm wide x 4mm high key and the keyways to fit; so if I use a standard 6mm high key in real life it won't fit. There doesn't seem to be any way to change to a custom key height.

Or is Inventor using a different set of standards? It's pretty good at matching standards in other places, for example the gear and fastener generators, so this seems strange to me.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Multi Directional Keyway

Dec 21, 2011

I am using 2012 currently. I am trying to make 2 key ways in opposite sides of a short aluminum round tube or bushing. the keyways will start at the top edge of the tube,  cut to the center of the tubes length, then go 90 degrees in either direction going with the curvature of the tube wall, then back towards the top edge, but not all the way back out.The keyway will be through all, on both sides.

It essentially is a twist lock for a shaft with two pins to be pushed in, turned 90 degrees and sprung back into a locked position.  What autodesk intended its Inventor 2010 and 2012 users to use to put this feature into the parts drawing or model.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Circular Pattern To Reposition Internal Keyway

Oct 22, 2012

I am using a circular pattern to re-position an internal keyway and am wondering if it is possible to supress the original keyway? Right now I have to give it a 'Placement' value of 2 to get the keyway to shift the amount I want, and as such it keeps the original as well as the new (overlapping them). I wish to suppress only the original one leaving new one...

Inventor 2014 PDS

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Aug 25, 2012

The company i'm working used to draw their casted parts in Autocad. They added the extra material (before milling) with a dashed contour line. Now we work with Inventor 2010 and the models are all created 'finished'.

Now the situation is that the CNC-programmer is adding this 'given' material in his Gibs-cam application in order to write his program. Due to that the discussion appeared what is best. To add the material in Inventor or in Gibbs. I'm interested to hear some workaround according to this.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: FEM Analysis Giving Object Acceleration

Mar 24, 2012

I do not know how to do the folowing:

I have an object that has to be accelerated by an external force. It can freely move in space.

But when I apply the forces,the analysis complains that there are no constraints.

I don't want to constraint the object. Because that would result in stresses that will not be there in practice.

I just want to see the stresses when the forces are applied to accelerate the object.

So how to deal with this?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: ILogic Code Giving Error When Executed

Jan 23, 2012

However, I have one iLogic routine that is giving me an error whenever I run it. Selecting continue allows it run as expected. Basically, it is to remind designers to set the material type to other than “Default”.

Here is the Materialsddd = 0' deleted parameter materialName = ThisDoc.Document.ComponentDefinition.Material.Name If materialName = "Default" Then MultiValue.List("MName") = iProperties.Materials MName = InputListBox("Select Material", MultiValue.List("MName"), Mname, Title := "Select Type", ListName := "MM List") iProperties.Material = Mname iLogicVb.UpdateWhenDone = True The Parameter MName does exist as a mulitlist parameter.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Sheet Metal Template Giving Error / Non-empty VBA Warning

Oct 2, 2013

I'm trying to breath life into an old Sheet Metal template.It starts with the Non-Empty VBA warning.From there, "Run-time error '13': type mismatch

Debugging, here's my screen (attached). I don't know enough about VB to know where there's a problem.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Getting Incorrect Material Properties

Jun 14, 2013

I was performing some FEA analysis and was getting some strange results. So I investigated into my material properties to find that mine were INCORRECT! I looked at some of my co workers material libraries and they seemed to be correct. How do I go about possibly resetting my material properties. I just installed inventor 2014 about a week or 2 ago. I have attached a screen shot of the incorrect material properties.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Dimension Values Incorrect On Drawing?

Sep 6, 2013

I'm using Inventor 2013.  I created an assembly where I did a lot of top down modeling (meaning components in the assembly were created in the assembly.  All but a handful of the components are adaptive to other components).  When I went to make my drawings for having the components made, I started noticing that some of the dimension values were wrong.  I could go into the model and verify the features, but when dimensioning on the drawing it would not match.  Furthermore, this didn't occur on every dimmension on the drawing.  Not even half of them were incorrect, but it only takes one to really mess up a part.

I've attached a screen shot of what I'm seeing.  The 15.2 and 5 dimmension are correct, but obviously those don't add up to 31.37.  I know I can manually override this dimmension, but only if I know to do it.  I tried to do a drawing of another part in the same assembly and eventually found a similar problem. 

Finally, I created a step file of the 1st part (to strip away the adaptivity) and when I created the drawing again, the problem went away.

My question is, is there something I did in the assembly / creation process that would have caused this? 

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AutoCAD Inventor :: IGS - An Unnamed File Contains Incorrect Path

Apr 11, 2012

When i attempt to open an IGS file i get "an unnnamed files contains an incorrect path"

 I thought it could have been a corrupted file but its not.Tried to create my own IGS file (successful) attempted to open that and failed.Downloaded an IGS file from Autodesk, failed as well.I was having issues opening other files but i updated the video drivers on my Dell M6600.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Assembly Mass Property Incorrect

Oct 29, 2013

I am having a problem with an assembly not showing the correct total mass of all of its components and sub-assemblies.  The value is out by nearly 20%, over 3000kg! 

I have narrowed the mass discrepancy down to a derived part of a sub-assembly.  But this incorrect mass is only present when I navigate to the derived part's iproperites via the browser tree of the higher level assembly where I am having the mass problem.  It is as though the top assembly got some of its mass property information from a previous point in time, i.e. possibly before the derived part's mass properties were updated, and now refuses to look at the current information.

By the way, I have opened up and checked the mass properties of each sub-assembly and the derived part; and when opened individually these show as correct.  I have also tried 'Rebuild All' with no success.

Is it possible for mass properties in an assembly to become corrupted?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Recent Files List Incorrect

Jul 15, 2012

From the inventor file menu how to get an in correct recent files list? I get a list that i never worked on. When I carefully take a look, it shows a combination of couple files i worked on and a many files that my colleagues worked on.The tool tip shows it reading from c: empxxxx

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Incorrect Flat Pattern Size?

May 30, 2012

I have a roll formed sheet metal part set to use a k factor of .5. The blank size should be (hand calculated) 7.924. Inventor is giving me 7.892. I made a new part with the exact same geometery as the first and set it to also use a .5 k factor, this one develops correctly to 7.924.

I checked all the dimensions multiple times. What am I missing here?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: 2012 Ribbon Appearance Incorrect

Mar 22, 2012

The ribbon layout has changed by itself so that it now displays smaller icons and I have to click on drop down arrows to access sub menus - I had it correct displaying the icons with the sub menus next to them but it seems to have changed.

I have worked through ALL the options available in the ribbons appearance etc. and this doesn't change them.

Autodesk Inventor Professional 2013 SP2 64-Bit Edition
Windows 7 HP Z400, Intel Xeon W3550 3.07GHz
12.0GB RAM, ATI FirePro V4800 (FireGL)

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Cone Refold Adding Incorrect Surfaces

Feb 5, 2013

We're seeing strange behavior on all of our workstations when using a Refold feature on a sheet metal cone.  Surfaces are (very incorrectly) being added at the top and bottom openings of the cone when the Refold feature is added. The behaviour is the same whether using Contour Roll or Revolve.  The surfaces dissappear when the cone is revolved to a lesser degree, such as 200 degrees instead of 359.  The cone can be revolved to 360 degrees and ripped but that raises a whole nother problem because Inventor does not correctly refold a 360 ripped cone. File attached.  By the way, the surface artifacts show up in the flat pattern as well.

Inventor 2012 SP2
Vault Collaboration 2013 SP1
Dell Precision T3500, Xeon W3503 2.4GHz, AMD FirePro V4900
Windows 7 64-bit, 8 GB RAM

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Design View Representation Incorrect Display

Apr 20, 2013

I have a client that is having difficulty with Design View Representations. He has approximately 15 view representations, each having items in different states of visibility. The icons display the modes of visibility correctly, however, there are no objects visible in the graphics window at all. Additionally, the option, "Find in Window" is missing when right-clicking on visible objects. Only when he copies the View Representation over to a LOD, and then saves that back out to a VR, do the graphics in the window appear correctly. Then the Option, Find in Window shows up and is available.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Work Point Inclusion Location Incorrect

Dec 10, 2013

The workpoint I have in my model is in the location I want.

When I INCLUDE  it in my IDW file it shows up in the wrong location.

Glad I noticed that, I would have dimensioned to the wrong location and ended up with a scrapped part.

I wonder what would cause this? Maybe a bug? I looked at the model from every possible angle and the point is in the exact location I need.
 
Dell Precision T3500
Windows 7 Pro
Quad Core Intel Xeon
6 Gb SDRam
NVIDIA Quadro
Product Design Suite 2014 Premium

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Incorrect Mass For Assembly With Levels Of Detail

Sep 20, 2013

I have an assembly file in which I have created several levels of detail.  My intent was to suppress specific parts in the assembly (for views in the idw and to calculate the weight of the assembly).

I have noticed that the mass is incorrect for the level of detail that I want calculated.  I determined this after creating a new assembly and deleting all parts that were not used in this level of detail.  And, by viewing all parts individually and adding them up by hand.

All parts in the assembly have the correct density.  I have selected to calculate the mass properties of the active level of detail when updating.

My questions:  Am I correct in assuming that the assembly will caculate only the parts that are not suppressed?  Or, am I thinking of it wrong?  Is this particular assembly messed up?  I haven't noticed this before and am now concerned that my weights have been incorrect.

My solution to use right now is to create a new assembly just for figuring out the weight.  I think there is a better way.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Using Frame Generator

Jun 24, 2009

While using the frame generator's "Trim - Extend to Face" command on short members, the wrong end of the member is being trimmed. Is there a way to choose which end to trim on short members?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: How To Use Frame Generator

Oct 12, 2012

How to use frame generator in assembly? I find difficult to assemble a huge assembly.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Filename / Directory Name Or Volume Label Syntax Is Incorrect

Nov 30, 2011

"The filename, directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect. The database in K;lah/blahlah.widget.ipt* could not be saved".It's nothing to do with an improper name; even saving as the default 'Part 3' doesn't work.

At the moment I'm limping by using Save Copy As. Neither Save not Save As work at all.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: DIN H-Beams In Frame Generator

Aug 13, 2013

I'm running Inventor 2013 professional and I want to design a steel structure for stress analysis. But I can't find any DIN H-beams (HEB, HEA in accordance to DIN 1025) in the "insert frame member selection". 

Isn't it possible to use DIN H-beams in Inventor frame generator? Can I add my own parts to the library for stress analysis?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Frame Generator Disappeared?

Apr 19, 2012

All of a sudden I can't get up my frame generator. I click into my frame > hit "insert frame", which is normally where the dialog box comes up, but I get nothing.

Inventor Professional 2014.
Windows 7 64 bit.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Frame Generator Error

Feb 13, 2012

I just recently had Inventor 2012 installed on my computer and I went to make a frame generator and an error message popped up and won't let me make the generator. I attached a .jpeg to this that shows what error keeps appearing.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: End Cap Button For Frame Generator?

Aug 6, 2013

Coming from a solidworks background, i frequently use weldments, or Inventor's equivalent - frame generator.

Wondering if there was a solidworks 'end cap' equivalent.  

[URL] essentially a weldment driven and generated part which doesn't need much thinking about.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Using Frame Generator And Vault

May 20, 2011

It seems to me that there is a major disconnect between using the Vault and using Frame Generator.  When creating a frame using frame generator all the parts are automatically named by frame generator.  It gives you a name such ANSI W8x13 00000001 for an I-beam for instance.  As you create more components (I-beams in this case) the number on the end of the file name increases so you have 0000002, 00000003 etc.  After I'm finished with the assembly I will check it into the vault.

The issue comes up when I go to create a new assembly a few days later using the same I-beam.  The naming convention for the I-beam is exactly the same for the new assembly file.  It will start over and give me a new ANSI W8x13 00000001 file.  Now when I go to check it into the vault I get the "cannot check in due to vaulting restrictions" error because the two files have been named the exact same thing.  It seems crazy that Inventor would be set up this way considering how vault works.  The only thing I have found is that you can click the browse button and rename the file.  This is a serious headache though because I have to come up with a unique name (or pre-fix) for EVERY part of EVERY frame that I generate.  And lets just say it's not hard for me to create 100+ new parts a day using frame generator. 

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AutoCAD Inventor :: No Studs In Frame Generator?

Dec 23, 2011

Aside of beams and so I could use some metal studs. Seems like there are not any.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Frame Generator Cut Length

Mar 6, 2013

The frame generator gives the wrong cut length (G_L) when using double end treatment "Trim and Extend to Face"

See attached screen shot: The correct length of the diagonal RHS should be 1852 mm after trimming the RH end to btm and rh member. As far as I remember this is an old problem never been fixed. Is a lot of work manually altering the cut length of 20-30 member in the BOM.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: How To Position Key Precisely With Key Generator

Dec 13, 2012

I use the Key Generator from the Design Accelerator and drag the red arrow to position the key under the gear.

Numbers change, and when i position the key they disappear.

There is no way to input a precise dimension. am i right?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Frame Generator BSI Standard

May 9, 2012

I created a frame using 150 x 75 BS4 channel section in 2011/12 (can't remember which) however it was created before the BOM length fix (all lengths stated are not necessarily the lengths of the beams). In order to fix this I need to redraw the frame, which is fair enough, however I am unable to find the BSI standard channel section. In fact, BSI has seemed to vanish from my library completely, I can not even place a component from the BSI library.

I have had a look around the C:/Programdata/autodesk/inventor2011(or 12 or 13)/contenetcentre/libraries and have found parker, gost, DIN etc but no BSI. I have not used the frame generator/place component in 2013 yet so no idea if this was from install or not.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Edit With Frame Generator

Oct 30, 2012

My skeleton has lost translation with my frame generator and has offset the sketch. I have tried "Edit with Frame Generator" but the peices seem to stay in place.

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