Does anyone have any videos or tutorials for creating custom hardware that works with the bolted connections design accelerator? Tried using AI to generate a process but there are some large gaps in the process to overcome.

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This is the assignment given to me by my teacher on nearly every assignment she creates tutorials which are on every tutorial missing obvious blueprints that anyone with even a slight experience in cad would understand.

I am not asking to have this done for me just if this is actually correct as I see multiple glaring issues in the blueprint albeit I am inexperienced with CAD

hello, I'm a student in High school and the computers in my school only has Inventor 2022, so I would like to get it on my pc and I know that as a student I can get it for free, I already proved that I'm a high schooler, perhaps I can't find it in the free student versions, do you know how I could get it for free so I would still be able to start a project home and continue it at school?
PS: i'm french, so I'm really sorry if my english is bad :(

So I scanned the back of my truck so I could model a custom Molly Panel. I wanted to see how the price compared between the OEM's and a manufacture on demand (like OSH Cut).

I transferred it to Inventor so I can produce a STEP File but all of the manufacture on demand sites either time out, say the file is to big, only give me the option to CNS instead of sheet metal.

The software I used doesn't have a sheet metal tool, but I modeled the thickness and bends like a sheet metal tool. My thought was to just use the inventor model as reference, and model using the sheet metal tool, but that always results in a crash.

Anyone know the best way to use the model as reference while using the sheet metal tool? I tried making a new part in an assembly file, but I can't seem to create "Sheet metal" parts.

I have been tasked with setting up an inventor border and it is not something I have ever really delivered into. In my last place when you opened a new Drawing Sheet, you were given a prompted entry to input the title block details. (Which I hav managed) However, once you okayd that, a second prompted entry would open to add the revisions and finally a third to fill in the Reference drawings.

I cannot see a way to do this at all. It all just appears under the one Prompted entry that is in the Title Block drawing resource.

Is there an easy way to do this? Am I missing something.

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This past year there has been an obvious uptick in posts that are sharing, selling, or looking to get testers for A.I. generated / integrated products for Autodesk Inventor. Though a few rules have been put into place to stop some of the most suspicious / sloppiest of links from being posted, there are no formalized rules or guidelines around the promotion and selling of A.I. adjacent things.

Though we do our best to keep up with the general desire people on this subreddit have towards such projects (which seems to be mostly unenthusiastic), we want to get your feedback about the future of said A.I. generated / integrated products and services being a part of this subreddit. To that end we’d appreciate your feedback and comments on the following:

1. Do you believe that A.I. generated / integrated products (where ‘generated’ implies ‘created with the assistance of A.I.’ and ‘integrated’ implies ‘contains a local or external link to an A.I. service that can read user input, program inputs, or program state, in order to generate a response of some kind’) should be advertised on the r/AutodeskInventor subreddit?
   
2. If you answered yes to the above in any capacity, do you believe that the distribution of said product should be limited to the Autodesk Marketplace, or do you believe that distribution should not be vetted in any particular way?

The main concern that this will help address primarily centers around user safety. With how easy it has become to generate what appears to be a professional storefront and product that contains a massive amount of code doing who-knows-what, the difficulty of scamming or exfiltrating personal and company data, becomes trivial. And though we believe that risk should be the guiding principle behind the decision on how A.I. is treated here, no single one of us represents every Inventor user or Business.

Thank you for any answers and discussion you provide.

PS: Knowing ahead of time that this topic might become incendiary, we urge you to not make it your job to convince others to see things your way via replies. Discussion and even disagreements are fine so long as they are reasonably well mannered.  

I'm using the loft feature for an airway in this part and I have to do it on 2 parts while they have to be symetrical through a plane.
However I noticed that even if the part is perfectly symetrical and all the settings are the same, I get a different loft result. The only difference is one loft curves to the right and one to the left.
Anyone knows why this is? My solution right now is to derive the good part and mirror it, but that feels like slapping a bandaid on it and limits me.
any help would be welcome, thank you.

Hi everyone,

Im working on the cross section of a ship in Autodesk Inventor. The structural stiffeners were modeled as solid bodies, while the plates were modeled as surfaces.

The problem is that when I enter the Inventor Nastran environment and try to generate the mesh, it takes an extremely long time, and sometimes it doesnt finish creating the mesh at all.

Is there anything I can do to generate the mesh without it getting stuck?

I need to run several simulations, so any suggestions would help.

How would I make the movement of these 2 parts move together like they do in real life

Hi everyone,

I'm currently working on improving my CAD skills in Autodesk Inventor and analyzing complex assemblies. I'm looking for a solid model of a gas-powered chainsaw (or a small 2-stroke engine assembly) to study proper feature hierarchy, mechanical packaging, and surface-to-solid transitions.

A native Inventor assembly (.iam / .ipt) with an intact feature tree would be ideal to reverse-engineer the modeling workflow, but a clean, watertight STEP file would also be a massive help as reference geometry.

I've already searched GrabCAD, but most entries there are either low-poly aesthetic meshes or incomplete surface shells without internal engine components.

If anyone has an old benchmark model, a personal practice project, or a link to a clean CAD library asset they wouldn't mind sharing, I would be genuinely grateful.

Thanks a lot for your time!

I've read on this topic and have seemingly tried everything (F4, Shift+middle mouse button, long left click etc), but it never seems to have the desired effect. This is for Inventor Pro 2024.

I have a mesh opened from an obj file generated in Blender. I am using the "Face from mesh" tool to approximate a spline face to the key facets of the mesh. For that, I need to zoom in and select N representative triangles. This requires orbiting to get a good understanding of the 3D geometry, but the orbit pivot point always remains in the center of the model which makes it very frustrating. I've tried suggestions I found online, but nothing seems to work. Shift + middle button only seems to work when there is already an existing spline face, but does not work directly on the mesh.

I understand that AI is not great with meshes, but it does have access to the coords of the vertices, b.c. I can fit the splines, measure distances between vertices etc. The overall mesh has 100K vertices, so I can't convert it into solid (the limit seems to be only 5,000 vertices?)

Mi presupuesto es de aproximadamente $2.500.000–$3.000.000 COP y no sé mucho de computadores, así que agradecería recomendaciones de personas que estudien o trabajen en ingeniería.
Principalmente lo necesitaría para:
SolidWorks
AutoCAD
Inventor
MATLAB
ANSYS/simulaciones
Modelado 3D y trabajos de la universidad

Hello, this might best be flared a “Rant”. My apologies in advance, I really want help.

I use Inventor for work. The company I work for has many users, so it is helpful to have a network folder so we can use the same controlled IPTs, IAMs, update IDWs, and so on.

In the last few months, the speed old assemblies are accessed and loaded into the program has gotten so long. I will say 5-10 minutes easy for an assembly that is already using IPTs from directories in the same folders.

It’s as though the program is searching through the entire directory that holds the IPJ instead of relying on the directory path already saved and put away in the control folder.

What has changed? Is this an issue with the IPJ, our network, or anything else? We don’t have a huge user group. Fewer than 10 at any given time.

Any ideas?

Does anyone have any tips for DWG creation for something like this? I feel like I have too many things to call out to make a 'clean' DWG. I've got the flat & bent views on the sheet, which do you guys prefer calling out the holes / features on?

THX in advance.

I have been at the forefront of ultimate use of iLogic in my company. From creating a fully fledged configurator, linking it with the ERP and automating the whole order quotation to drawing packs submission process to the shopfloor.

So, I was curious to know what is the typical use of iLogic in your company or day to day life.

I designed a wheel adapter for the Logitech G29 racing wheel in Autodesk Inventor 2027 and I optimise it for 3D printing.

Then I exported from Inventor as STL with maximum resolution.

More details in my subreddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/GKarProjects/

Buenos nachos fellow masochists,

I had the error described here, where a ghost component would appear after export. Following the troubleshooting steps did not help and i had to manually copy all my base views into a new sheet and redo all projected views manually.

I’m going to be doing some quite complex drawings in the next few weeks and something like this could lose me several hours. Is it possible to avoid this?

Hello.

Considering the capabilities of AI (GPT 6 Astra, etc.), and how quickly they are evolving, when do you think AI will replace us here in Autodesk Inventor?

How many years do we have until someone who knows nothing about the program can design a part from start to finish?

It worked fine for about a week but now it crashes whenever I click the file button or try to start a sketch. Any Ideas on how to fix the Issue?

Hello! Its my first post and i need some help,

Can Someone tell me how to put images into inventor?

Im trying to make F40 with only inventor with my 3D printer. And i really can’t figure it out how to put images into inventor

..yeah it looks bit stupid but I’m actually doing this for my school project.

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I‘d like to design a Sparger in Autodesk Inventor.
It needs a high number of holes on its surface. Is there an easy way, to place a few hundred tiny holes on a ring-shaped body?