Is there a specific way that the frame generator needs to be modeled? It looks like all information is stored within the assembly rather than within the frame because (thus if you make an edit to the frame within the frame it's not reflected within the assembly?) the mass within the BOM is shows 2 s...

Drawing was never saved, I spent hours combing through tutorials and youtube videos and no one showed it was possible to combine them by geometry instead of just by length and part number. Looking through the Inventor forum for this only found disgruntled solidworks users and no solution

They don't like me over there, dunno why... just kidding, I'm relatively active in the iLogic side I'll bite though - I spent ~5 hours working on CC and FG with the majority of that going to figuring out the cut list. Getting the lengths is easy peasy, but the grouping should be geometry based - i.e...

Part rant, part plea for help but I'm finding all of Inventor's advanced features to help you to be a steaming pile of >>> While using weldments in SW was buggy until about 2017 in my experience it was always possible to design a workflow that would meet company standards but Inventor seems to lack ...

My first IV gig was in 2013-2014, and back then, I would have agreed with this. IV was fine, but at that time, it seemed to be "SW from a few years ago". Now it seems that IV has progressed past SW in some very meaningful ways... Still does most days. There are some things it does really ...

"take an assembly and save it as an .ipt" - Derive the assembly into ipt. It won't make it multi-body. This is a great example of IV's awful interface! You have "Create Derived Substitutes" which...isn't obvious what it does or how it works. Component Derive which only wants to ...

I think in most cases a strict dislike for one over the other tends to be in the operators inability to adapt to a new thought process. There were things I did all the time in IV that simply made SW fall to it's knees. I didn't start claiming that SW sucked, I asked "OK, how do I do that in SW...

Hi Guys, friz here. Former Solidworks user (CSWP), currently a somewhat disgruntled Inventor user. Used to be really active on the SW forums but left SW in early 2020 and was sad to see what happened with 3DExperience so pretty appreciative that this forum came about as a result. Been a design engin...

First let me say that anyone who believes SW and IV are equivalent is deluded and what follows is a non-exhaustive list of reasons why. I haven't used SW since 2019 and have been in Inventor ever since and it's made an otherwise fun career pretty depressing trying to sort through all the pains of IV...