AutoDesk Inventor tutorials: your questions & answers – by Rosanna

In this AutoDesk Inventor Tutorials – Your Q&A, the question I got was from an AutoCAD user trying to figure out how to do something in AutoCAD’s big 3D modeling sister, Inventor.

“In AutoCAD it’s easy for me to move a face, and replace it. How can I do that with Inventor? It doesn’t seem that there’s an easy way to, for example, adjust a face around an axis or plane, or a point. Can you let me know how to do it?”

Yes, I can certainly help, and that’s what we’ll cover in this AutoDesk Inventor tutorials – your Q&A segment. I encounter many AutoCAD users who are so used to doing things quickly, efficiently, seamlessly in this sweet 2D software that when they get to a 3D modeller, especially a parametric one which requires less free form placing of your geometry, they are pretty annoyed at how limiting it seems. In fact, like everything else, it’s just a matter of getting used to the interface and the tools. You need a year of working with a 3D modeller to get proficiency; it’s like a language that you have to learn to be fluent with, putting the tools together in certain ways that make sense in order to get a model designed and possibly manufactured.

For comprehensive and thorough Inventor tutorials and training, please check out one of our Inventor tutorials.

The Move Faces and Replace Faces tools are on the Modify Panel, so make sure you’ve got the Modify Panel visible. You need to right-click on the command manager and select Modify from the list of available panels. When it’s visible, it’ll be marked with a checkmark. The Move Faces tool has three options: 1)”free move”–so you just drag handles in the workspace or graphic area, 2) Direction & Distance (you can specify some numeric values and/or drag in the graphic area), and Points & Planes (you base the move on points and planes that you select once you have this subtool active).

Here’s a link to the AutoDesk Inventor Tutorials: How to Move Faces on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XjTye8SiqA

I’ll publish an HTML file / PDF version of this video shortly, in case you prefer to read about it rather than watch an Inventor tutorials video!

We have a sale all through January on the Complete Inventor Tutorials Library, which is several dozen hours in total, and if you want one of the non-bundled courses, use our coupon code “january” until Jan 31, 2014.

Thanks, Rosanna – VTN

AutoDesk Inventor Tutorials – How to move a face