AutoCAD Inventor :: Single Composite Derived Assembly / I Features

Jun 24, 2012

I've derived an assembly into a part file. On inserting an i feature, Why can't I select a face of the single composite body?

You can create a sketch on a face, but not insert an i feature on a face.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Create Derived Part Using Only Some Features?

Jan 12, 2014

it's possible to create a derived part using only some of the features of the base components i.e. I've got a funny shaped part with a bunch of holes in it, and I need another part with exactly the same shape but totally different holes (location and size)I know you can do this with the different solids in the part (only use some of the solids) but I haven't been able to figure it out with features, if it's possible at all.

I could probably create one base part (just the shape) and derive both parts from that, but then I've got a part lying around doing jack.using IV 11.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Coloring After Apply Features On Derived Parts

Nov 18, 2011

Looks that in Inventor 2012 apperead few errors with coloring when we apply any feature on derived part. Situation:

1. Design Multi body Part with few bodies

2. Make components from it

3. Open derived component

4. Apply new material for this part (for example Copper)

5. Make Hole on any component surface

6. You will get Default color of Hole surface and surface which contact with Hole Color

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Delete Work Features From Derived Part?

Nov 10, 2011

How do I delete work plane 1 from the attached part, 'test derived'?

workflow.

create a part, pattern a plane, save as 'test deriver'

create new part, derive work plane 1 from 'test deriver' sketch onto work plane 1, save as test derived

go back to 'test deriver, delete the pattern and create a new pattern, work plane 2, (i couldnt just edit it because the real life case was a series of patterns at different distances)

open part 'test derived', edit the derived part to include work plane 2, (work plane 1 doesnt exist in 'test deriver' anymore) redefine the sketch onto work plane 2

try to get rid of work plane 1 from the part?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Parameters Of Derived Assembly

Nov 6, 2011

Now I want to know how to exclude derived parameters of an assembly and of occurrences in this assembly.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: VBA - Getting Derived Part In Assembly BOM

Jul 19, 2012

I have a vba project that can extract an assembly BOM.

However, it does not output derived parts. What is wrong with my code, shown in the attached file?

What I am trying to do is create a ipt file of a "Laser-Cut" component. Use this component to make another component with drilled, tapped holes in it. Then use this plate, containing the drilled and tapped holes in an assembly.

I need to output this "Laser-Cut" part in my vba created BOM. Is it possible?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Derived Assembly Associative Option?

Aug 31, 2012

I want to un check this associativity thru VBA

' Create Derived Assembly Definition for the file Filename
Dim oDerivedAssem As DerivedAssemblyDefinition
Set oDerivedAssem = oPartCompDef.ReferenceComponents. _
DerivedAssemblyComponents.CreateDefinition(Filename)
oDerivedAssem. ?

Config :: Intel (R) Xeon (R) CPU E31245 @ 3.30 GHz, 16.0 GB, 64bit win7
Inventor 2013 and Vault Basic 2013

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Not Possible To Exclude Components With Derived Assembly?

Jan 12, 2010

It seems to me that the basic exclude component no longer works when deriving assemblies. If I cycle through components it is not possible to get the Grey circle with the backslash through it?

IV2010 SP2
Dell Precision PWS690
Quadro FX3500
DirectX 178.46
Spaceball 5000
Intel Xeon 3GHz
4GB RAM
WinXP Pro SP3

IV2014 SP1 64bit
Dell Precision T7500, Geforce GTX 480, DirectX11 306.97
SpaceExplorer 4.04, 3DxWare 3.12.2
Twin Intel Xeon E5506 2.13GHz, 12GB RAM, Win7 Pro SP1 64bit

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Unable To Exclude Parts In A Derived Assembly

Jul 14, 2013

It says i can exclude parts from the assembly, when i insert it as a derived part, but the exclude button is greyed in the insert derived part dialog box.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Derived Part From Assembly In Position Representation?

Jan 30, 2013

I have found an strange behaviour of derivin part from assembly when position repre is used.

There are lost or moved some part. It seems that this is another bug in Inventor 2013SP1.1. 

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AutoCAD Inventor :: How To Suppress Link To Derived Parts Inside Assembly

Dec 4, 2007

I am having some trouble with this quick VBA app, I want a utility that can traverse all the parts in a top level assembly and suppress the link to each derived part (multiple) in all the parts in the assembly.

I have played with the following

Public Sub SuppressLink()
Dim partdoc As PartDocument
Set partdoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
partdoc.ComponentDefinition.ReferenceComponents.DerivedPartComponents.Item(1).SuppressLinkToFile = True
End Sub

Which works, but only on one part file, and only on the first derived part. Is there any easy way to make this work on ALL the dervived links and every single part inside an assembly?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: 2012 - Parts Derived From Assembly Lose Color

May 17, 2011

Concerning Inventor 2012...

We do a good bit of deriving parts from assemblies. We have a workflow that works well for us, we create PARTS, put them in an ASSEMBLY, then create new PARTS DERIVED from ASSEMBLY. We use Boolean to add/subtract and disregard parts as needed to create these parts. These parts are now given color and reassembled in an yet another final ASSEMBLY as needed and put into a drawing.

Through Inventor 2011 this worked well. 

In Inventor 2012 the color is disapering as soon as any change is made on a source part.

1 Changing the color does not work.

2 In the derived from Assembly, opening up (in the browser) the individual .ipt's and right clicking and clicking properties and changing the color only stays until the next change to the source prt.

3 Changing EACH individual face by right click, properties and setting the FACE PROPERTIES from "as feature" to "as part" does work, but is ridiculous to change hundreds of faces on each part. (especially considering we did NOT need this step in 2011)

Is there a switch in the registry (to turn off the standard “as feature” to the parts face).

Inventor 2012
Windows 7 64, 6gb RAM, Nvidia 4000

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Unfolding A Part Created Form Derived Assembly

Oct 7, 2013

I am trying to unfold a part created from a derived assembly like I usually do… why in the world will it not unfold, and show a preview of the unfolded in the other direction??

At first all was working… until I added a part (see the circled item in picture), and I don’t have any problem usually!

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Multiple Components In Assembly - Derived Part Not Updating?

Jun 14, 2013

Assembly comprised of multiple components all derived from the same master sketch "4 Inch Rail Master Sketch" 

 Using the sketch to drive geometry, using the parameters to drive various extrude lengths.

Geometry changes seem to propogate quite well, while parameter changes do not...is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?  Generally have to open each individual part and "edit derived part" to force changes to propgate...

files attached (move end of part marker down for all .ipts).

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Access Assembly Features Through ILogic

Nov 19, 2012

I'm now having an issue accessing the features in an assembly, the error message is attached and the following is the relative code.

The error line is between the 2 Test Messages:

'Create a Component Definition relative to the Part Document

Dim oFeature As Features
Dim oAssembly As AssemblyDocument
oAssembly = oCompOcc.Definition.Document
MsgBox("Test 1")

'Cycle through all features in the Part
For Each oFeature In oAssembly.ComponentDefinition.Features
MsgBox("Test 2")

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Suppress Assembly Features In Drawing?

Mar 8, 2005

Is it possible to suppress an assembly feature in a drawing view?We make some components in an assembly oversized and then do a final machine step after welding or brazing. We show the completed assembly in the drawing but would like to see the assembly prior to machining in some views.If I suppress the machining features in the model it affects all views. Can we suppress the features in just one view?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Accessing Features From A Part In An Assembly

Aug 22, 2012

I'm crating a macro wich would allow me to select multiple parts in an assembly and then calculate the length of each part. The parts are tubes wich are made of a sinlge sweep.

I started from the example truesweeplength, and built from there.

Now my problem is accessing the sweepfeature from the assembly.

In the part enviroment i use this:

Dim oDoc As PartDocument
Dim oDef As PartComponentDefinition
Dim osweepcount As Long  
Set oDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
Set oDef = oDoc.ComponentDefinition
osweepcount = oDef.Features.SweepFeatures.Count

The sweepcount is simply to check how many sweep features are in the part.

This works fine in part level.Now from assembly level I first create an obecjtcollection from all the parts I selected

Set oOccurrences = ThisApplication.TransientObjects.CreateObjectCollection

Then I try to acces the first occurence

oDoc.SelectSet.Item(1)

But then I'm stuck. I cant find the way to acess the features of the selected part.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Passing Down Assembly Features To Part Level

Dec 11, 2012

How do you save features added in an assembly to the part? For example, if I add a hole in an assembly, presently I cannot see it when I open the part. It seems like a very basic function, I'm not sure why it doesn't do it automatically.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: IAssemblies - Assembly Hole Features Not Updating?

Dec 17, 2013

I have made an iAssembly with a main body and flanges attached to the body.

Assembly feature holes have been created act on the main body, and these holes are relative to the position of the flange.

When I change the factory member - the position of the flange changes, but the holes stay in the last location and so the model is wrong.

The only way to overcome this error, is if I go to the Manage tab and manually select 'Rebuild All'.

I need this to work automatically as drawings are generated wrong when changing model state. 

My intention is that this will be used in an iLogic routine, linked to an external sales package.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Auto Snap To Features When Designing Parts In Assembly?

Aug 27, 2012

I recently started working with Inventor (Solidworks user for 15 years).  When designing new parts in an assembly in Solidworks, there was always an auto snap feature to align parts (centerline, midpoint, etc).  I cant seem to find this option in Inventor 2013.  Im trying to design new parts in an assembly but cant seem to snap to any other existing parts features or centerlines.  Is there a quick way to activate this option?  Is it even available in Inventor?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Extract Single Assembly From IAssembly

Mar 4, 2013

I have an i Assembly, with a Sub-i Assembly and i Parts. Is it possible to "extract" a copy of one configuration as normal assembly? So that I have an assembly where I can modify parts without touching the iAssembly or iParts.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: How To Create Multiple Frames In A Single Assembly Environment

Jul 3, 2013

Is it possible to create multiple frames in a single assembly environment? (i.e. Frame0001, Frame0002)

The members all lump together in one Frame regardless of when they are created in the workflow.

I know there is a workaround for this by making each frame in its own assembly...but that will be more cumbersome than it is worth in this application.

Right now I have just created folders in the Frame0001 to sort things out, but the folders are not very flexible as far as moving things in and out or reordering...it is a pain.

I've used the Frame generator to create my existing building columns, existing platform columns, and existing handrail. I'll be using the frame generator pretty soon here to build a new platform, which I would love to keep separate from the existing steel.

I suppose I could save the current assembly and insert it into a new one so I can add the new equipment, but I'd rather avoid large subassemblies like that. Seems like it would be a lot easier to just have an option to create Frame0002.

(Inventor Professional 2014 Update 1, Windows 7 Professional)

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Can't Get COG Of Single Part Inside Assembly Using Default Feature Of ILogic

Jul 10, 2012

can't get the COG of a single part inside an assembly using the default feature of iLogic:

centerPt=iProperties.CenterOfGravityOfComponent("part1:1")

Wikihelp states that it's possible to get the COG of a part within an assembly.It doesn't seem to work anytime getting an error on some missing included references .do I need a Sub-Rule inside the single part?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: How To Get Multiple Users To Work In Single Assembly File At Same Time

Feb 5, 2013

I have one large assembly for hose routing it consists of around 1000 hoses all hoses are coming in main assembly but delivery date is very short. My plan is work on same assembly 5 people how it works?

One idea is like working in sub assemblies but in my case only one assembly consist of all hoses.

How to work multiple users in single assembly file at same time. like in solid works enable collabarative mode.

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Set Features To Be Invisible When Create Sketch After Those 3D Features

Sep 3, 2012

Is there any way to set features to be invisible when create sketch after those 3D features so as to make the sketch more easy to see?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: FEA On Composite Materials

Jun 16, 2011

I am running Autodesk Inventor Professional 2010.  I use FEA a lot on steel and aluminum structures but was wondering if Inventor is capable of doing FEA on composite structures.  I personally want to estimate the strength of some carbon fiber tubing but wasn't sure whether or not I would be getting good data from it.  I know that composites don't yield and was wondering how or if that will affect anything.  Also, if you can do an FEA on a composite, any solid website to get material properties from?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Creating A Composite Position Tolerance?

Nov 18, 2011

how to create a compsite position tolerance with the Feature Control Frame command? (See attachment)

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Difference Between Group / Composite And Surface

Jun 6, 2012

what is the difference between group, composite and surface in COPY OBJECT option in ipt?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Error - Importing Multiple Surfaces Results In 1 Composite Surface

Feb 16, 2012

When importing objects into Inventor, all surface objects are being joined together into 1 composite surface. What I need is multiple surfaces, or seperate surface/composite objects.

Capture 1

Shows 3 solids imported from Rhino

Each solid is a sepreate solid

Capture 2

Shows 2 solids and 1 surface composite imported from Rhino

Capture 3

Shows 1 solid and 1 surface composite imported from Rhino

1. Why is Inventor creating 1 composite from multiple non intersecting surfaces?

2. How can I avoid this from happening?

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Derived Parts And Mass

Aug 23, 2012

have one assy comprising of a valve, made in steel, an actuator made in aluminum, total weight combined is 36 kg.

I make this assy a derived ipt.. i have tried all the output options, single solid, multy solid and the weight is not the same.. since its a new ipt has its own material, ok makes sense.. .. So i use composite, i get the correct weight (yay), but now i cant turn the visibility off on the 2d drawing, in certain pipe spool view representations.

What is the correct procedure for turning multi material assys into an ipt.. to get the correct weights and get the drawings to work properly? 

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AutoCAD Inventor :: Bending Derived Component

Aug 13, 2013

I was wondering if there is a way to bend a derived componet. I have an odd extruded part and would like to cut and bend it. I want to do it this way so I can also include the cut length before bend. I know of frame generator, but am not able to use it since if falls out of the structure of how our files are saved.

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