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Re: showdown: SOLIDWORKS vs. INVENTOR

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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).
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.