AutoCAD Inventor :: Locking Key Inserts - Spec Out A Blind Tapped Hole
Jun 19, 2012
I've recently started using Inventor at my small shop and I'm just getting things kicked off. One thing that we do fairly often involves the use of key locking inserts, similar to McMaster # 90245A034 (I couldn't post a link directly to their catalog page........)
So I'd like to edit my Thread.XLS file to include a tab for this, so I could choose the internal thread and it would create a tapped hole to a certain depth. For example, a 3/8"-16 insert has a 9/16"-12 external thread and needs a tap drill diameter of 0.516, 0.57" deep. The 9/16"-12 thread needs to be 0.56" deep by the chart.
My question is, how do I control the depths within the spreadsheet? I'm assuming that I can't just add a column and call it "tap depth" and "drill depth" and have it be good. Is there some "teach" process to tell Inventor what column represents what kind of feature?
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Dec 1, 2011
I'm trying to programmatically toggle a hole between tapped and simple. I found the Tapped property in the object browser but when I try to use it I get a "Method 'Tapped' of object 'HoleFeature' failed" error.
Public Sub setThd(tap As Boolean, doc As PartDocument)Dim hole As HoleFeatureDim holes As HoleFeaturesSet holes = doc.ComponentDefinition.Features.HoleFeaturesFor Each hole In holes If hole.HealthStatus <> kSuppressedHealth Then hole.tapped = tap End IfNextEnd Sub
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Jul 15, 2011
I'm using Inventor 2011 and can't find any thread inserts in 'hole' command. Neither helicoil nor recoil - are they unavailable? Cose that would be a bit poor. Can I ****ch them on somehow?Â
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Aug 15, 2013
I needed to create a lot of bolted connections so that my design could be sent for FEA analysis.Connections with thru holes eg. nuts and washers on the back work fine beyond the everpresent update issues.
My issue is with tapped holes, my parts already have the tapped holes but the "Botlted connection" feature insists on creating a new tapped hole for me. This is not so bad but every time I have to update for moved holes etc when updating the bolted connection I get a new tapped hole.Would really like to get rid of that tapped hole?
Also when I get the extra holes I delete the feature and then have problems with the underlying sketch which I cannot access, how do I get rid of that sketch or how do I access it?
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Nov 6, 2012
I've got a template with a set of Object defaults for an Inch drawing and a set for a Metric drawing. I've just noticed that within my metric set, if I insert a hole table with tapped holes, the font on the tapped holes doesn't match the other hole types. I'm searched around, but all the settings for the hole table style reference the same text style. (Please see the attached image.)
So is there a way to set a certain hole type to have a certain font or size within a hole table? Because if there is, I'd obviously like to remove it..... But I can't seem to figure out where the issue is.
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May 22, 2012
I am trying to add a hole to an existing hole chart. I drop the part into a new drawing, set the ordinate "zero", and add a hole chart by selecting a few holes. When I attempt to edit the chart: click chart, right click "edit", click add hole, select new holes, right click to create, the "create" selection is greyed out and all I have to choose from is cancel. I searched the forum here but could not find a reference to this a know issue. Am I doing something wrong or is this a glitch of 2013.Â
We are running win7 x64 machines and this happens on both the 2013 Ultimate and Premium editions of the product.
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Nov 19, 2012
I have had this problem intermittently for a few weeks since going to Inventor 2013 SP1.1. I have a part within an assembly and that part has holes created in it before assembling it with other parts. Now when I try and create a hole table in a drawing of the assembly I cannot select hole edges and the hole table is blank when trying to create it automatically from view selection. I originally thought it may be an alignment issue but I have since aligned everything correctly and it still persists. I can create the hole table if I import in just the part into the drawing but it will not allow me to create the table on the whole assembly.Â
I can also create the hole table if I use "centred pattern" and create cross hairs on all of the holes however it does not give me correct annotations for the holes as shown in attachment and I can manually change the annotations but seriously this should not be required. As shown in the screen shot it reads as A1 down to K1 instead of A1 to A10. .
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Nov 28, 2012
Question: Is it possible to control the Hole Dimensions called out on the Hole Chart? As in controling leading/trailing zeros for main hole dim, alt home dim and tolerances? Can you combine the Main Dim with the Alt dim in a single column, separated with parentheses? (same with tolerance?)
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Oct 19, 2012
I would like to use the hole command to place a hole in a part. When I place the hole it won't allow me to use one of the origin planes to locate the hole from. Can I only locate holes off edges?
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Apr 27, 2012
I have an assembly that contains a part and a hole feature (the hole feature is at the assembly level). Using the api, I'm trying to get the hole location relative to the part's coordinate system in a without using the holeplacementdefinition.distance property, this way I can get the hole location regardless of the way it was defined.
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Aug 28, 2013
i use hole feature names in hole table.
i assign hole names attribute to hole feature but dont get attribute hole table.
how to get hole names in hole table.
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Jun 17, 2013
While creating holes in a part, a small counter shows (when you click on a point) of how many holes there are.
Programs:
Solidworks (1998-2011)
Autodesk Inventor (R8 - 2013)
Autodesk AutoCad 2D
Autodesk AutoCad 3D
Catia V5
SolidEdge
Anvil (Very old program!)
Pro/E
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Jun 11, 2013
I have a specifications sheet that i use in every project. It contains numerous text blocks for each specification, however on certain projects some specs do not apply. I have to go through the spec sheet and delete/modify what i don't need for each job. wondering if there is a way to tell autocad what i want displayed and what i don't want displayed. For example, i do electrical drafting, the job does not require a transformer so i don't want the specs for a transformer to appear on the sheet. Basically looking for check-box type list (or similar) that i run and it inserts the appropriate text in its location.
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May 28, 2013
I have a 3d image of a connector and I just want to use it as part of a 2d spec sheet I am making of a cable assembly. How do I "flatten" it? Right now it looks like a wire frame in a 2d viewer but has the properties of a solid object when I am viewing in 3d in AC2009.
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Dec 3, 2013
I am using Inventor 2012.
I created an assembly in Inventor and now I am creating a drawing for it in Inventor. I have a few views placed of the same assembly.
Is there a way to lock one view in the assembly? For example, my assembly consists of a door, I would like to have one view with the door open and another view with the door closed on the same drawing using the same assembly link.Â
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Aug 5, 2010
What associative links are removed when locking a design view representation? Hopping IV 2012 will have representations working the way they did back in IV 2008, my BOM'S and views both played together quit nicely when creating installation drawings.
IV 2010 64bit
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Mar 26, 2013
I am labeling station and offsets from my alignment for curb returns and such and for some reason if the offset point is directly perpendicular from an alignment PC or PT the label can't find the alignment information. It's like there is a blind spot.
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Jan 7, 2013
If Inventor is on the screen when the pc locks (win+L) Inventor will not display properly after unocking the pc. Moving the mouse around will change what is highlighted in the feature tree and things like that, but I cannot at all see the actual object I am working on. Changing from one open component to another does not work. I have to restart each time this happens. I have updated both Inventor and my display drivers to a supported version.
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Apr 10, 2009
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Jun 10, 2009
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Dec 18, 2013
Is there a way in the description field of an Inventor hole table to have mixed units? Â Some hole sizes at fractions, some at 2 plc, and others at 3 places.
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May 5, 2004
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Nov 18, 2002
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Oct 30, 2012
I have a tool palette with our typical symbols which are blocks. All the blocks on the tool palette shows correct and the proerties of the blocks are correct but when I decide to drag a block in from the tool palette, no matter which block of 30, the same block inserts. How do I get the palette to insert the correct block.Using ARCH 2013, 64-bit, windows 7.
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Nov 2, 2012
I am trying to cloth simulate a window blind. My problem is as follows : The model is made up of several pieces.
1. the curtain / blind
2. a hard button near the bottom
3. a cord attached to the button
4. a wooden know at the bottom of the cord
5 then finally tassled material
So i want the blind to move like cloth blowing in the wind ( fine no problem i can do that ! ) but the hard button must be hard surface and follow the mesh position of the blind - PROBLEM
Then the cord attached to the button must be cloth dynamic to flap about and then the knob on the bottom hard surface attached to this cord and then the tassels must be cloth.
The only way i can think of to do this without merging the seperate geometry is to simulate the curtain then cash this, the attach the button to a cluster on the curtain, then do the sim on the cord, then cluster attach the knob the cloth the tassels.
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Aug 9, 2013
I am working on some VB code to reterive the dimensions fron an IDW and put them on an excel spreadsheet for an Inspection report. I found some code to which gets the linear dimensions and have added tolerance type and tolerance bands.
I have been unable to get the hole notes off the IDW. Got the general notes to work with the following
Dim invDrawNotes As Inventor.DrawingNotes
Dim invActDrawNotes As Inventor.DrawingNote
Set invDrawNotes = invActSHT.DrawingNotes
[Code]....
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May 16, 2013
I need to add thread to a hole but cannot do this under the edit command. How to do this ?
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Dec 14, 2011
Is there a way to tell Inventor to use the mean value for threaded holes? As it is IV always puts the Minor-min value for the hole size, which is a PITA for any and all CAM software.
The thread data can be extracted in CAM, but the hole size still remains what it's modeled as. I know I can edit the spreadsheet and cheat it, but that isn't exactly the correct way to go about it.
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Feb 5, 2012
I'm trying to get hole tolerance by Inventor API using c++ but the value returned is not correct.
the code is:
Parameter* diam = m_Feature->GetHoleDiameter(); //Â m_Feature is a given HoleFeatureÂ
double tol = diam->Tolerance; // returned 1.0
BSTR str = diam->Tolerance->HoleTolerance; // returned "0".
// The correct value is 2.89
How can I get the correct tolerance value?
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Oct 10, 2013
We are starting to install AutoCAD 2014 on our machines. On one of our machines, the user can't get double click editing to work on inserts. I can open the drawing on my machine and it works fine. She is using the same profile and workspace and both machines have SP1 installed. Double click editing works for other objects (MLeaders, Text...) but not for inserts or their attributes. The only way she can edit the attribute text is through the property window.
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Jul 10, 2013
Im currently creating a custom menu to insert blocks on request. I have set up the following macro which seems to work fine:- Â Â Â Â
^c^c-insert;HVLV-UB610x125;;;;
However when pulling in a specific block the drawing the layer becomes 0.
Ive tryed adding this additional macro line before the above one which fixes the problem :-
^C^C-LAYER;M;E-LIGHTING-CEIL;C;R;;;ORTHOMODE;1;^c^c-insert;HVLV-UB610x125;;;;
However now the block retains its layer properties ......ie  E-Lighting-Ceil (or what ever I name it) but it drops the block
in RED, instead of its original colour.
Question is Im looking for a macro that will bring in my block as per ^c^c-insert;HVLV-UB610x125;;;;
but also bring it in to a drawing on its original layer that its saved to.
please note that even thou the first code brings it in at layer 0, the blocks layer is also inserted into the DWG however its just not associated to it ..... hence the user has to select the block once he or she has brought it in and then change the layer from the layers manager manually. This is not ideal.
just to recap i just need a macro that will A) bring in a block from a location. And B) keep all the properties it has when it is brought in.
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