Inventor^® Training

Repairing Imported Inventor Surfaces - Page 2

By David Melvin, PE, TEDCF Publishing

Tolerances are an integral part of your designs, so you might want to use them in your sketches, and you’ll be surprised to learn what you can do with them.

This tip will show you how to add tolerances to your sketch dimensions, and you’ll learn a few tricks for using them.

Tolerances can be applied while you add dimensions.

After you’ve fixed the troublesome surfaces you can usually use standard surface commands to finish working on the part.

Why is this important?
Sometimes you just can’t get the standard surfacing commands to do what you need them to do for one reason or another. Knowing that you can repair the file before applying standard surfacing commands gives you more resources for solving problems like these.