This new feature for Inventor 2013 makes life a lot easier for those of us who create a lot of sketches. In the old days (Inventor 2011 and earlier) sketches needed to be drawn roughly to the correct size, otherwise the first dimension added to the sketch could blow the whole thing up –turning things inside-out and other undesirable behavior. In the old days, you watched the status bar, which is not very conducive to the free flow of design energies, and more recently, there is the “heads up” indicators that follow your cursor as you draw –which is actually more annoying. It’s like having a couple of flies buzzing around your cursor……flies that are always obscuring the view of your design.
The image to the right shows a freehand sketch similar to one that may be created in Inventor. It’s a quick hashing out of a shape as a designer would do as opposed to the plodding input needed to comply with the old schema.
And here is what happens when a dimension is added that is not to the sketches scale…
All jacked up is what we have here. Sure, you can get around this by tediously watching the gizmos in the old schema, but a far better choice is let the design juices flow, then sort out the minutia later, which is what this Inventor 2013 New Feature allows. The same sketch is shown below in Inventor 2013 with the same dimension added…
It may not seem like much, but it goes a long way towards improving the design flow. The old schema forced you to concentrate on making the program work instead of what it should be doing, facilitating creativity. Later…
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