In my post titled Square Holes In Autodesk Inventor?, I promised to give a quick tutorial on how to create a mortising tool as an iFeature, so here it goes…
Inventor iFeatures are incredibly easy to create, and can save huge amounts of time on those tasks you need to perform on a regular basis, and are not already present as a tool in the main program. What it does is allows you to save a feature and its underlying sketch and parameters for perpetual reuse.
How I generally create these is that during the course of regular modeling, I come across a feature that I need to create that I feel will be needed again enough to warrant creating an iFeature. They are very easy to make, so the only problem you may run into is having too many —and possibly having a hard time finding the one you are looking for. Whatever the case may be, one you decide to create on, you just model the feature as you would normally, making sure to create parameters for any dimensions as they will be reused and cam be modified in future iterations of the feature.
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