As with the Two-Point-Center Rectangle, this new for Inventor 2013 feature has actually been around for some time as an add-in created by Brian Hall. This tool does exactly the same as the Two-Point-Center Rectangle, except for the fact that it allows you to create the rectangle at an angle in the same manner as the old Three-Point Rectangle tool.
A typical workflow goes like this…
Start a sketch and project one of the Origin Planes or Axis onto the sketch, then start the Three-Point-Center Rectangle tool, and click on the projected centerpoint to set the first point. Move your cursor to an angle and click to set the second point…
…then move your cursor to the rough size, and click to set the last point…
…then set your angle…
From there you would finish the sketch of course, and not leave it with two dimensions needed… but you knew that. All-in-all a nice new feature for Inventor 2013.
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This is a great new feature and long overdue beats the heck out of having to constrain midpoints to projected center points to center up base sketches.
Hi Erik,
I agree. I guess more people need to make these little proof of concept add-ons to force Autodesk off their butts to add it into the actual program.
Mark