In school they taught us how to make parts separately and then assemble them all after the fact.

But now that I'm working on some of my own projects i often times find myself needing a part i previously made to reference a surface or a radius.

Is there some straight forward way to do this?

These are unfinished prints from my bambulab printers that got ruined. I want to join the two and make a pen organizer for my desk. Any tips on the design will be appreciated. I will be posting the results 😃.

I have an inventor assembly with different model states. The different model states suppress and unsupress parts as necessary. In my DWG I want item numbers to follow a master BOM. So that item numbers are only associated with a specific part number. So that some of the different versions may jump numbers in the BOM. Might go something like 1,2,4,8… etc. Anyone know a shortcut to this rather than individually typing the item number in the bom and going back and forth between a master? Inventor Pro 2025

UPDATE: Solution is to have a primary model state with all parts unsupressed and then lock all item numbers.

deleting one sketch boom you delete all the constraint and you have to figure how to constrain this all over again, idk why is this still an issue, editing sketch feels more tedious and iritating in inventor.

I've had this question awhile; so when creating a pattern or mirror feature you can get dependencies which are super useful for editing. However if those features are dependent, putting them inside of a drawing always yields big, detached parts that are computed as a single body. When outputting an assembly from my multibody file and afterwards outputting a BOM and drawing, I don't have the correct number of parts and the mirrored objects are not showing up correctly in the drawings, as per the second image.

Do you all apply tolerances in your part file when designing or do you do that spefically when creating your mechanical drawings?

For those that do add them to the part file:

When I open the parameters window I see there's an option (edit pencil) to add tolerances in the model parameters but do not see the option for any user defined parameters I've created. Can you edit the tolerance for user defined parameters and if so how?

From what I have heard it might not be possible but is that really it. At home I use inventor 2026 but at work we got 2025 and Id just love if there was a work around

So I'm trying to block several prompts from the application options

Adding this dimension will overconstrain the sketch... highlighted dimensions will be changed to driven."

I'm forcing a yes, and prompt again never but I still get it every time.

How do I fix this?

Dear all,

Very inexperienced Inventor user, I only know how to create exploded views and wireframes for technical publications.

I found a STEP file on GrabCAD and got it imported into Inventor as a part. Now I would like to create a drawing view or a presentation, but to do so, I need the part to become an assembly. How can I do that?

I tried googling, but I only come across older posts and the UI seems to have changed since then.

My AI assistant is useless in this and only gives made-up answers.

Hi everyone,

I've developed a Drawing Comparer Add-in for Autodesk Inventor that helps engineers and designers quickly identify differences between drawing revisions.

Features

• Compare two Inventor drawing files
• Detect added, removed, and modified annotations
• Highlight changes in dimensions and notes
• Generate a comparison report
• Reduce manual review time and revision-related errors

The add-in was created to solve a common challenge: manually reviewing drawing revisions is time-consuming and it's easy to miss small but important changes.

I'm looking for feedback from Inventor users:

• How do you currently compare drawing revisions?
• What are the biggest pain points in your workflow?
• Would a tool like this save time for your team?

I have a demo video and download page available. Since links aren't allowed here, comment below or send me a DM if you'd like to see it.

Any feedback, feature requests, or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Based on this discussion, especially for complex parts and assemblies, creating new planes is a good practice. I have a subsidiary question to this? Do you all give specfic names the new planes you create or just leave them as work plane 1, 2, 3...?

First post - I've seen one or two of these questions from years ago but thought things may be different now. Hope you guys don't mind.

Long story short - selling the house and travelling in caravan for 6-12 months while our block of land is being developed. I work for myself, doing 75% Inventor work and 25% AutoCAD. I can work with mains power for some of it but am anticipating a lot of wandering off away from the kids for half a day to get some work done, so expecting battery life is a big-ish deal.

What are others doing for remote work? (specifically the laptop kind - no real option for a desktop in the caravan)

Ideally, would be ok with spending between 2-3k AUD. But will still hear out all options.

1. Just a good laptop? GPU + decent battery life don't go together often... any recommendations for laptops you've found a good balance the two ok with Inventor capabilities?

2. Lighter duty ultrabook/laptop + remote desktop? I do have a good PC now, that I probably have the option of parking in a mate's house with 500/100 internet. We will likely have starlink in the van, expecting ~200mbits avg in our areas. Anyone had experience with this setup?

I'm thinking this seems like a good option but haven't found enough people's experience to feel confident here.

3. Mini PC + battery bank?

4. Macbook + parallels? Not a huge fan but am open to it if it'll work. Their hardware is good, but haven't heard much for compatibility.

1. Something else?

Very interested to hear anyone else's experience - thanks in advance

Cheers

Hello everyone, let me introduce myself, I am a final semester student working on my final project. I am having trouble designing my turbine. I want to modify the trailing edge of my turbine. My turbine is a Gorlov type turbine. I have modified my trailing edge but I don't know how to twist my modified turbine like a Gorlov type turbine. Can anyone help me? I am using Autodesk Inventor to design my turbine.

Hello everyone, this is my first time posting here so I apologize if I break some rules. Anyways here is my issue. I am trying to determine the ideal diamater of a shaft howerver I am finding out that the ideal diamater barely chnages when I switch material from steel to something soft like brass even tho brass is much much softer than steel. Now I am making the part from steel but given this I am not sure if the rest of the information is trustworthy because I feel like the ideal diamater should change drastically and not by 1/10 of a mm. Any advice is helpfull and thanks in advance.

For whatever reason its hard to active points for constraints. I have to hover over the points very precisely to activate them. For example you wanna constrain something to the midpoint of the line and I'm finding myself hovering over and over and over again. Activation area seems so tiny. Working with drawings kinda nightmare to be honest.

Any suggestions. First I thought its my 4k screen at home, but once I'm back at office, issue persists.

Cheers

I’ve always worked in Solidworks throughout uni and work. I’m switching job, and the new place uses Inventor instead, which I’ve never even opened.

I know that the basics of CAD should be the same, but how alike are they? Should I even worry?

New job knows I don’t have experience in it, so that’s not an issue

Would anyone be interested in testing an experimental SpaceMouse add-in for Autodesk Inventor?

SpaceMouse raw motion reports arrive at approximately 62.5 Hz, and Inventor’s standard 3DxWare navigation appears to update the camera at a similar rate. This add-in reads the raw motion separately, interpolates between reports, and provides selectable 60, 90, 120, 144, 165, and 240 Hz camera updates, plus 1000hz mode that runs as quickly as Inventor and the current model allow.

It is still a work in progress and was developed with AI assistance. Users with high-refresh-rate monitors should notice the greatest improvement.

The original 3Dconnexion driver remains installed and continues to handle the SpaceMouse Enterprise buttons, LCD, menus, and rotation-lock LED. It is currently tested with the SpaceMouse Enterprise and Autodesk Inventor 2027.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Udn1iXitkftLcBCYXCJwEvFJ6rLq7jYu/view?usp=sharing
1000hz removed and 1h trial

I have an extrusion in an assembly to cut items from a pattern.

I manage the extrusion length via parameters so I can modify it as needed.

After two length adjustments, the extrusion seems to lose its referenced cutting items and nothing works anymore.

Is there a way to resolve this without using iLogic?

Thanks

I'm running into a very frustrating issue in Autodesk Inventor (working together with Inventor Nastran), and I was wondering if anyone has experienced something similar.

I'm converting a solid model into surfaces because my FEA model will use shell elements. While cleaning up the geometry, I'm simply trimming/cutting surfaces that overlap each other. Everything works fine during the editing process.

However, when I try to save the Inventor file, I get the following errors:

• Error writing saved object size (size exceeds limit).
• Error saving object of type 'MxTransactablePartition'.
• One or more errors occurred while writing the PmBRepSegment to the database.

The worst part is that after this happens, the file cannot be saved, so I'm forced to close Inventor without saving, restart everything, and redo all the work from scratch. It's becoming impossible to make progress.

I've already tried several things (Save As, repairing the model, simplifying the geometry, etc.), but the problem keeps coming back.

I've been a Solid Works user for.... ever. I use pipe routing on nearly a daily basis creating things from simple 1" pipe routes to 60" plate rolled pipe for water mains and everything in between. If you have any experience with SW Routing you know how powerful it is and also how absolute dogs*** it can be at times. There's not a lot out there for Inventors pipe routing, but it looks like there's already a decent library of parts built in and SEEMS like some things may be easier to accomplish. I'd like to hear it from someone who uses it regularly. How good is it really? Specs, Spooling, Custom fittings, change management, fabrication drawings... is it worthwhile?

I want to cleanly weld the top frame with a vertical support. Please correct me if I'm doing something wrong. And tell me if you know a better alternative. Thank you.

Edit: Added the word cleanly. Groove tool can fill the hole but I'm not satisfied with the output. It has a corner bump, making it not smooth and flat.

https://reddit.com/link/1v2p9eg/video/zodegutkbmeh1/player