Since it’s possible to use Inventor as a hybrid system you are no longer limited to our parts alone. It’s possible to create anything from scratch using Inventor. Keep in mind that some more advanced knowledge is required to create these items.
There are numerous tutorials online (YouTube, Autodesk,… ) that will help you in this process.
For this training I will show you how to create two parts that might come in handy when designing your booth.
- a wooden board to be used with the universal brackets.
- a textile with a print applied to cover multiple frames.
A wooden board
We begin by creating a new part.
Use an easy to recognize filename and make sure the new file location is within our project.
Click OK and click on an empty space to create our new part.
Create a new sketch with a rectangle with a 856 x 500mm size and extrude it with a thickness of 10mm.
We can change the material to wood using the material editor and choosing Wood. The appearance will be automatically set to the default appearance of this material.
If required, it’s always possible to overwrite the appearance by selecting a different one from the appearance editor.
Now our part is finish we can return to our project and use Grid Snap again to position it behind the universal brackets.
A Custom Textile
It’s possible to create textiles and add prints to them as well.
Start by creating a new part in our project again.
Create a sketch of 992x992mm and extrude it by 2 mm.
It’s also possible to sketch out the shape of the textile and extrude it in the height.
Create a new sketch on the face of the textile and choose Insert Image.
Place and resize the image so that it fit’s over the square shape.
Finish the sketch and choose Decal.
Select to face you want to apply the decal to and Inventor will automatically crop the image and makes it follow the shape of the face.
Position the textile on our small lightbox to finish it off.
Import CAD files
Next to Inventor files which you can place from the library or create yourself, it’s also possible to import different CAD files, such as STP, DWG, STL,… files.
There are numerous places where you can find and download 3D files.- https://grabcad.com/library
- https://fabory.partcommunity.com/3d-cad-models/sso/
- https://archive3d.net/
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I suggest trying to use STP files as these will carry the most information.
Simple choose Import CAD Files under Place and select your CAD file.
