The new 3D sketch creation and editing tools gives you more fluid edits as well as a rich set of constraints Inventor 2017 – part modelling This means that if you’re trying to construct a tricky surface you can copy/paste and tweak to get it just right, rather than starting from scratch each time. In particular, the command that allows you to drag and drop points in 3D space more fluidly than ever before.Īlso worthy of note is that elements of a 3D sketch can be cut/copy and pasted both within a single sketch or between separate ones. If you’re a long time Inventor user, it’s worth spending time looking into the specifics. What’s also interesting is the manner in which the 3D sketches can be both constrained to existing points of reference while enabling those all important tweaks to get both the function of the part right and the desired aesthetic. The new 3D Sketch environment fixes this, giving you tools to quickly create not only reference points where needed, but also relationships, fillets, blend curves etc.
While the previous tools worked, they were more than a little cumbersome in their approach, particularly given how other modelling operations are now much more dynamic and freeform. Inventor 2017 – 3D sketch revisitedįor those working with tube, pipe and many other types of features that naturally conform to a planar sketch, the work done on improving the usability of 3D sketch creation is going to be a massive boost to productivity. While this hasn’t changed massively for this release, there is the addition of support for referencing STEP files as well as to the native formats including Catia, NX, Creo, SolidWorks, Alias and Pro/Engineer.
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Of course, once you need to perform edits on those ‘third party’ parts, you’ll need to do the full conversion, but until that point, they act like native Inventor geometry, so can be measured, inspected, assembled etc. While it’s not removing the conversion process, the fact that links are maintained associatively, make it much more usable.
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But instead of doing a full scale import and conversion to Inventor format, the system hides the process from the user and maintains the link to that originating data.Įssentially, if you update the originating file, Inventor will recognise the change and update where it appears accordingly.
Inventor’s An圜AD technology allows data to be brought in from a variety of sources (such as native data formats). While we covered it on the 2016 release, it’s worth a recap. In particular, if you’re looking to maintain a link to that originating data to better handle design changes. Those that follow the Inventor progression path, might be aware that the last few releases have seen Autodesk focus on making the work with imported data more effective.
Parts themselves can be made temporarily transparent, which is useful for seeing inside a component (or set of components) without having to change their ‘appearance’ permanently. The second is that there are now a number of keyboard shortcuts to control visibility of the parts that are being worked on. A relief for those who’ve had to search for their spectacles in order to find the fillet option. The first is that the UI has been adapted to make the most of 4K screens. That said, there are a few tweaks that will make life easier or more efficient. There are no massive user interface changes in Inventor, which is good news for existing users. Advertisement Inventor 2017 – user experience
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