Inventor tips and tricks: #4 feature creation
Published Tue 9 Feb 2010
Steve Bedder shares his top Inventor tips for feature creation
1) Selection filters
1a) When working in a sketch, part, assembly or drawing you can use Inventor selection priority/filter options to help you quickly and easily select the geometry you require. You can access the selection priority menu from the top of the Inventor application window.
1b) However, you can also hold the SHIFT key and right mouse button at any time to get a shortcut menu for all of the Inventor selection priority/filter options.
2) Profiles and sketch Intersections
If you are ever in a situation where you are trying to extrude a profile but are unable to select the part of the 2D profile to extrude, you can use sketch points to force the intersection.
2a) In this example, I want to extrude the intersection between the two circles.
2b) If I try to select the intersection profile, I can’t. I can only select the two circles.
2c) To get around this I add two sketch points at each of the intersections.
2d) I can then use the Extrude tool to extrude the profile I require.
