However, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck we might as well all pretend it’s a duck. Instead the new primitives’ tools roll up the creation of the sketch and the feature into one. Unfortunately these aren’t true primitives – like in Inventor Fusion. One of my favourites is the inclusion of Primitives. The part modelling environment has its fair share of new features. You may have to be a Maths wiz to work them out! Equation curves – I have no clue about these.
Perpendicular constraints for arcs – Save having to add geometry to constrain arcs.Scale sketch from first dimension – That first parameter will no longer blow your sketch all to cock.Centre point rectangle – Save picks and clicks constraining those base sketches.In particular I impressed that 3D sketching has so many improvements, I am hoping that drag-able geometry will make 3D sketching useful. The vast majority of the ‘enhancements’ in this release of Inventor are in the Sketching and part modelling environment.Ĭonsidering that Sketching tools do not make for sexy marketing, it’s nice to see that Autodesk have listened to us users and worked hard to implement so many improvements. Will Inventor 2013 make my work any easier? You can also right click on the EOP itself to move it to the top or the bottom of the Feature tree.Ĭonclusion : If you have made the leap to the Inventor Ribbon, you will have no problem picking up these logical and well implemented enhancements to the Inventor User Interface. You can now insert it under any feature by right clicking and choosing ‘Move EOP’.
The good old ‘EOP’ or ‘End of part marker’ has learned a few new tricks. If you do a lot of multi-body part modelling I’m sure that you will find this useful. It’s always annoyed me how often I have to scroll past loads of parameters before I get to the user parameters I need. For example, if you collapse the Model Parameters folder, it remains collapsed the next time you open the dialog box. In the Parameters dialog box, the state of the display of folders now persists. Persistent display settings in Parameters The old dialog has not gone, but it will be rolled up by default, to encourage you to try out the new ‘In canvas’ tools. The shell tool now has direct manipulation tools and a min toolbar. Note : By definition, an empty sketch is fully constrained – so the push pin will show until you add some geometry. Commands that were previously available via right click or ‘F’ keys are now also available as a toggle in the status bar.įully constrained sketches are now indicated in the feature tree with a little ‘Push pin’ icon. The sketch environment has a neat little addition at the bottom of your screen.
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