Cutting

[cprogrammer]

I was wondering on how to cut an assembly part in Autodesk Inventor. I am just trying to cut a bumper in the kit of parts.

[Squirrelrock]

Originally Posted by cprogrammer

I was wondering on how to cut an assembly part in Autodesk Inventor. I am just trying to cut a bumper in the kit of parts.

I don't have the program in front of me, but i believe that if you place a plane in the assy where you want the cut to be made, and then use the slice (i think) command form either the side bar or the menus and select the plane that you just created as the slice plane.

Hopefully that helps.

[JasJ002]

by cut do you mean split a part in half or completely dispose of half of your bumper?

[jdiwnab]

Cuts are usually done on a part by part basis. If you wanted to remove some shape from your part, you would create a sketch of what you want to remove and when extruding/revolving/whatever you use, choose subtract from the menu (might also be called remove, cut, but is one of the three buttons that control how it extrudes). If you want to cut off a portion, I would recomend the slice tool. You create a work plane, or some other plane, that you will cut along. The slice tool looks like a part that suddenly ends at a yellow work plane. You select the plane and the part. you might have to experiment on which way you want to keep, but is mostly common sence. You might be able to pull of a similer action on a complete assembly, but I doubt it. This stims from the fact that it is referencing the parts and would find it hard to cut though one version of the part and not another.

[Squirrelrock]

Originally Posted by jdiwnab

... You might be able to pull of a similer action on a complete assembly, but I doubt it. ...

I have done this in an assy, but it is much easier to either select the part in the assy to work on and then slice, or to jsut go back to the part itself.

Just right click on the part, and click edit. From there, do your work. Then go to Return, up at the top, and it'll go back into the assembly.

[cprogrammer]

Thanks that works great.