Inventor Basic Tutorial III

Here we would share you the next step of how to drawing with Inventor, lets we start !

Inventor Basic tutorial

Create a hole in an object.
a. Using your existing drawing you will create a hole in the object. There are two different ways to do this
Method #1:
I. Place a sketch plane on one of the faces (sides) of your cube – not the side with the extrusion.
o You can do this by clicking on “Create 2D Sketch” and then clicking on the face of the object that you want to add the feature to.
II. Select “Circle” shape and place a circle on the face of your cube.
III. Make the circle 1 inch and center it in cube.
IV. Click “Finish Sketch”.
V. When the new toolbar appears you will click on “Extrude”.

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VI. When this is done you will see a dialogue box. You need to select the following items:

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VIII. Once you have selected these buttons you need to click on the inside of your circle this will highlight the “OK” button. Click the “OK” button and you will see feature change. See image below.

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This is the method for creating a hole using the Extrude/Cut function. You can also create a hole by using the hole function.


Method #2
To do this you will need to create another sketch plane on one of the other sides of the cube.
After this is done you will need to select the “POINT” tool on the toolbar

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After you select the “Point” tool you will need to try to determine the center of your circle before clicking on the face of the cube you have selected. Once you have determined where you think the center is you will click on the spot and you will see a green ‘cross hair’. This means that you have located the point on the face of your cube.
The image below shows the green ‘cross hair’ after you selected your point.

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Once you have selected your point your will click on the “Finish Sketch” button. This will change your view and you will see this toolbar.

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You will want to select “Hole”.
After you select hole you will see this dialogue box. You will need to do the select the following items:

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Once you have selected these options you will be able to click “OK” and a hole will be inserted into your object. To change the size of the hole you will need to change the dimension in the upper right hand dialogue box as seen above. When you click “OK” you will have hole going through your object as seen in the picture below.

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You now have two different methods to create a hole in an object.
Congratulation you has been finished the step III tutorial, in the next sharing we will share the next step of how to drawing with the inventor. 

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