Inventor Tutorial for the iDoor – 7

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Inventor Tutorial for the iDoor – 07 – Starting the Stile Profiles – Continued

The finished right stile sketch will look like the one below. Click on the image to open an image in a new browser window that shows the same sketch with the dimensions set to show Equations. The equations are the parameters that need to be used for the different elements of the sketch. Also, I made a crappy video that can be ignored (next page).

 

Inventor Tutorial iDoor Page Seven Image 01 - Right Stile Profile

 

Inventor Tutorial iDoor Page Seven Image 02 - Collinear Constraint

 

 

 Besides the parameters that were manually added to the sketch during creation, there are vertical and horizontal constraints on every line that were added as the sketch was drawn (via the constraint glyphs that were accepted). There are also less obvious constraints such as a Colinear Constraint
between the two lines that lead into and out of the panel groove (the big slot on the left side). That constraint is added by grabbing the Colinear Constraint
tool from the Constrain Panel
and clicking on both lines. The image to the right shows constraint visibility turned on for both lines….

 

 

 

 

Inventor Tutorial iDoor Page Seven Image 03 - Detail Of The Quarter Round Sketch

 

 

….the quarter round bead detail is kept in place by applying a vertcal constraint from it’s center point to the top end point, and a horizontal constraint from the same center point to the lower end point. If all is well, the status bar will say “full Constrained’ the image below will take you to an image of the sketch with everything turned on. Its always a mess when Show All Constraint is selected (right click during sketching) but you can see all of the Horizontal and Verical constraints that were added automatically. Continued….

 

 

 

 

  

 

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Inventor Tutorial iDoor Page Seven Image 04 - View All Constraints 

 

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4 thoughts on “Inventor Tutorial for the iDoor – 7”

  1. Hi Mark,

    I'm just starting to learn inventor and through google came across your tutorials. To start with, I'm following this tutorial and on this step I got totally lost when drawing the top left arc. I see some parallel constraints which I'm not being able to set. Also, at this stage my drawing still says '2 dimensions needed" – It probably has something to do with those constraints, but at this point I'm completely lost. This tutorial is quite a bit old, but it would be great if you could give me an hint on this one :-)

    Thank you,
    Paulo

    • Hello Paulo,

      Welcome to the ODP! The problem is likely in your Application Options settings. If you go to Tools > Options > Application Options > Sketch Tab. In the 2D Sketch area, change the Constraint placement priority from Parallel and perpendicular to Horizontal and vertical. I would also change the default setting below that to “Apply driven dimension”.

      You likely need a parallel or perpendicular constraint somewhere. Try adding these, or use the Auto Dimension tool (to the right of the Dimension tool on the Constrain Panel). Personally, I would start over with the new default settings as you may have problems with constraints added in either fashion mentioned above.
      Let me know how things work out!

      Mark

  2. Hi Mark,

    Thanks for you help. The problem was that I didn't really see the "Equal constraint" in inventor (as I said, I'm really fresh starting on inventor) and on you image it seemed like a "parallel constraint" which I couldn't add. When I saw the equal constraint, added the all the 3 and it went ok :-)

    Once again, thank you for your help.

    Paulo

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