If you want to know if your sketch is fully constrained, put a fix constraint on two lines (one vert, one horz for example) and then when other lines are fully contrained, they will change colour (mine go from light green to dark green)
You can make up a template with the standard views place. Make a drawing with the views set up however you like them and then save it as a template. Then you will just have to tell it which part and it will place the views.
try this: http://www.cbliss.com/inventor/Parts/Fasteners/fastener_iparts.htm
I just went to the site. This is the best one that I know of for fasteners, but there are also links on his site to other related sites.
I hope that helps.
If you want to you can make your assembly, and then under a new part number, you can create a derived part and then put a hole into it. As for putting the hole into the actual assembly file, if you find a way, let me know.
One problem that I have with inventor is this: We roll odd shapes with our sheet metal on jigs. In inventor the only way that we can get this shape is to loft it. But when you do this, you can not extract the flat pattern, which we need to send to our burner.
I have just started using Inventor. I have come up with a new title block, but have now come to a problem. How do I keep track of the revisions? Any Ideas? Also when making my title block I get a lot of fatal errors, but this is the only time it happens. When making parts and assemblies, no...
I'm still new to inventor, so this might be an easy problem. I'm trying to draw a sheet metal part that is rolled on a jig. That part is okay. My problem is that there are holes in it on a rounded surface. The holes are put in when the part is flat. So how can I get my workplane tangent to...
