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Inventor Troubleshooting

Issue 1 - Portability

One of the biggest problems with Inventor is sending your drawings to someone else. One way to accomplish this is with the pack and go command. The pack and go command can be accessed from windows explorer by right clicking on the model you want to move. Pack and go collects all the drawings associated with that drawing and asks where you want to move it. We have been using it to move models onto the a public folder and then the other person packs and goes to his own computer. If you want to attach to an email you can zip it and attach it but you always run the risk of missing an associated file. The following is an excerpt from the Inventor help file regarding Pack and Go:

http://wiki.gb.nrao.edu/pub/Knowledge/InventorTroubleshooting/PackandGo.pdf

Issue 2 - Drawing Problems

Work Planes

In order to make work planes offset from the initial planes you can:

define a plane based on points, or define a plane based on an original plane This type of definition allows you to offset it normally with respect to the defining points or plane

or

define a plan using points and a line or axis, this allows you to rotate the plane to any angle with respect to the line or axis

Issue 3 - Drawing Practice

Dimensioning

Decimal Digits

I know you all have been hammered about having too many significant digits in your decimals and running up the tolerance levels, BUT if you are dimensioning something that is a standard size (1/8, 1/16, etc.) you should go ahead and use the three place decimal. Inventor wants to round up a three place to a two place but the machinist can't tell if he should use a 0.125 measurement or a .13 measurement. This can be a problem for chained dimensions or for hole sizes where .125 is a standard size.

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