Alan Dundes
There are times when a component is placed in Autodesk Inventor, it doesn't take the orientation I want it to. It lays on it's side, back, etc. Every way but the way I want it.
Inventor can work with this just fine, but ultimately, I like my components sitting in a "natural" state.
Usually, I'll just unground the component, and assembly it to origin planes. It took little time, and got what I wanted.
But now, 2014 has added a new option, the ability to reorient a component during placement.
- Let's start with an assembly, where I'm placing a metal container with the Place Component command. Notice that the container is laying on it's back. I want it placed on it's bottom, like it would be hanging on a wall.
- It's important to note in the image below, that I'm still looking at the preview. I haven't placed the component by left clicking yet.
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| The initial preview of the component placement. |
- Now, with the preview on screen, I right click to see the rotation options. There are options to rotate around the X, Y, and Z axis in 90 degree increments.
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| Right clicking to see the rotation options. |
- In this example, I've rotated round the X-Axis once, and Y-Axis three times. (It's a little like a combo on a game console!)
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| The corrected orientation |
- Finally, the component can be placed by left clicking or by right clicking and choosing Place Grounded at Origin
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| Placing at Origin |
- And that's all there is to it! The component is placed and ground, all in the orientation I want!
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| The component placed! |
And below, here's the video portion of the post! I hope you find it helpful!
now how do you do this with derive?????
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure I understand, are you talking about when using the derive component? If so, I don't believe it's available at this point in time.
DeleteCheck This Out! ;)
DeleteThank you for the helpful post. Just a followup question, how do you make the change in the part orientation permenent? Next time I insert the part in another assembly the part orientation is preserved.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the tip, it helped me.
ReplyDeleteUsing now Inventor 2021 and I don't see this useful feature anymore. Is there a way to reactivate it?
ReplyDeleteAs far as I know it hasn't changed in 2021. Unfortunately my current employer moved us off of Inventor so I haven't used 2021 myself (I miss Inventor).
DeleteThat being said, if the feature is off, you might check Application Options to see if it can be turned back on. I would start on the assembly tab.