BIM Models Via Reverse Engineering With Autodesk Inventor – Part 7

I’ll begin this post by going all the way back to the first extrusion in this model to fix an error I made way back then. It will go a long way to demonstrate the power of parametric modeling.

 

The problem was that during the first extrusion, I inadvertently included the profile of the front reinforcing ribs in the selection set, giving the entire lower front an angle that it should not have. To fix this mistake, all I did was double click on the offending extrusion, get the profile selector from the dialog, hold down the shift button on my keyboard, and select the profile I want to remove from the selection set…

After clicking OK, the program chugged a bit —after all, there are now fillets in the area that need to be recomputed. After two or three seconds of computing, the correct profile appeared automagically…

Back to the modeling. With the front area is the way it should be, I turned on the visibility of the Side block and the Front block that is located at the very front of the model. The first thing I worked on were the brackets (the profile just removed). To begin with, I created a plane on the line that represents the front of the bracket (I turned off the visibility of the Front block for this shot)…

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…if you have been following this series, this procedure has been explained several times in earlier articles.

With the Front block’s visibility turned back on and the Side block’s turned off (I was done with it), the model looked like the image below…

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