Inventor...One More Section at a Time

Last time I posted I showed how to to a dynamic assembly section in Inventor. This weeks post is a little simpler but may still save you time if you are unaware. Check it out.

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Hope it save you a few steps.....

John With the INCAT CAD Geeks

One Section At A Time

Have you ever had the need to look at an assembly and figure out what's going on with the inner workings of some of the parts. It would be nice if you could "Dynamic Section" the assembly so you could drag a cut plane through the assembly and get a cross section. The DWF viewer offers this functionality as part of it's tool set. You can accomplish this in Inventor as well if you follow this short video on how to dynamically section an assembly....

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Hope this help "see" your designs a little better.

John With the INCAT CAD Geeks

Material Dependent Hatching

Hatching can now be controlled by the type of material that is assigned to a part. This can be extremely useful if you create a lot of section drawings and need better clarification. Keep in mind that Inventor provides two options to minimize the time needed to set up
the Hatch Pattern Defaults. Material names can be read directly from the active style library, or they can be read from the material definitions stored in a specific part file. Either way, it will help you churn out production drawings faster with less time spent "cleaning up" your views to get the look you want.

See how easy it is....

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John with the INCAT CAD Geeks

Create a Non-ortho Full Section

I had a customer ask me how to do a section view today. The kicker was that it was not an orthographic section view. It was a view looking at the end of a round part with a series of holes in it. They needed a full section through the view center and one of the holes. They were not sure how to do this, and not use a jogged section line.

Well I gave it some thought and came up with the solution and decided to post it here on the CAD Geek Blog.

Check out the video of it here:
http://www.screencast.com/t/MNpMwKokb

Enjoy,
Jim
One of the INCAT CAD Geeks