Help in Inventor 2010

[Rion Atkinson]

Ok, here's the thing. I have been CADing some random chassis designs. And I accidentally closed down the sidebar on the left hand side of the screen.(see picture) I can't edit my parts very well without this.

I have been through the help and went to their website. I couldn't find anything on how to get it back, so I figured I would ask the Chief. Does anyone know how to get this back? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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[McGurky]

Go to the view tab on the ribbon bar on the top. where it says User interface, make sure that "Browser" is checked. If not, check it. BTW your pic doesnt work... Hope this helps, if you have any more question just ask!!

http://s954.photobucket.com/albums/a...torProblem.jpg

[Rion Atkinson]

Thank you so much! I was ready to pull my hair out...

Figures that the pic wouldn't work... Thanks for reposting it.

[McGurky]

That same thing happened to me back when I was learning inventor for the first time when the navigation of the program wasn't as easy... I think I almost through my computer at a wall I was so frustrated!!

[Rion Atkinson]

Hahaha. Ya. It happened to me in 2009 as well.. I think I had to get the IED teacher to fix it....

[Akash Rastogi]

Nice frame rail btw, you might not need two sets of standoffs per increment depending on the diameter of the standoffs. Looks nice though Also, a tip for a more stable base is to move your front wheels as far front as possible and back wheels to the back.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/32515

[Rion Atkinson]

Ah. Ok. Thank you. I am currently just messing around with Inventor learning more about it. I'm running ideas by my curent team capitan as I do.

Thanks for the info! I'll be sure to take it into account in my design.

What would you say about the middle wheel? Keep it in the center?

[McGurky]

I found this on in your "Photobucket" The chassis looks pretty sweet, great work are you going to implement any kind of weight reduction on it?

[Rion Atkinson]

Thanks.

No I haven;t gotten that far yet. In fact. That is a sightly older version. The wheel are further apart now.

Eventually I'll get into weight reduction.. But as it is this will be my second year so I don;t really know what the best material would be for the railing.. at the moment I'm just using 1" extruded aluminium.. I'm not sure if you can really swiss cheese that..

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Formerly Famous

Thanks.

No I haven;t gotten that far yet. In fact. That is a sightly older version. The wheel are further apart now.

Eventually I'll get into weight reduction.. But as it is this will be my second year so I don;t really know what the best material would be for the railing.. at the moment I'm just using 1" extruded aluminium.. I'm not sure if you can really swiss cheese that..

When using 1x1 at 1/16" wall there is no need to unless there is a desperately fat robot sitting in your shop at the end of six weeks

[Rion Atkinson]

But will that hold up?