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Originally Posted by Ian Mackenzie
For instance, in Inventor I tried to create a shaft in the context of an assembly by extruding from the back face of one ball bearing to the back face of another ball bearing. When I changed the distance between the ball bearings, no matter what I tried, the length of the shaft wasn't updated, which pretty much scared me off Inventor completely (anything less than full parametric modelling, as far as I'm concerned, is unacceptable).
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Actually, inventor does offer adaptive parts in assemblies. When you open a part file, extrusions and even sketches can be set to "adaptable" when you right click on them. When constraining them in the assemblies they'll adapt to fit your design. theres a tutorial on it too.