extrusion long generic direction

[stabum]

dear all,
as from title I would like to know, neglecting for a moment the speech "loft", if exists (in inventor 2013) the possibility to extrude a 2d sketch along a generic direction, different from the normal direction to the plan to which the sketch belongs.

Thank you.

 

[pompeo79]

Yes, with a sweep for example, with straight or curved path.

The loft is there, but it's something else.

 

[marcof]

dear all,
as from title I would like to know, neglecting for a moment the speech "loft", if exists (in inventor 2013) the possibility to extrude a 2d sketch along a generic direction, different from the normal direction to the plan to which the sketch belongs.

Thank you.

Yes, with a sweep for example, with straight or curved path.
The loft is there, but it's something else.

I believe that "stabum" refers to the possibility, within the command of solid or cutting extrusion (not loft or sweep), to choose a direction of extrusion different from the normal one on the sketch plane, selecting other reference geometry (bords, reference geometry, axes... )

 

[pompeo79]

the sweep command does it without problems and in the same way.

instead of summoning extrusion, you invoke sweep, without having to draw necessarily a path.
the extrusion command makes perpendicular/rastremate extrusions.

 

[marcof]

the sweep command does it without problems and in the same way.

with the sweep command, however, the edge is not simply an extrusion direction, it is precisely the path to which the extrusion of the profile is bound. do so from the extrusion command allows to set a length to please or exploit the various options such as the final extrusion conditions or the initial ones of the sketch, on one or both directions, symmetrical etc...
it is clear that you can also get the same result with the sweep and some other features in addition without any trauma:smile:. I don't even know if what I wrote really corresponds to what "stabum" was asking. . .

 

[Tristan]

Have you tried the sweep?
http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/invent...part_fea353/0355-create_f355/0368-sweep_fe368edit: sorry, only now I have seen that they had already answered marco and grape.. .

 

[pompeo79]

all these control features had not been expressed in the initial topic.
every software does something more or less than others.

 

[stabum]

marcof and Pompeo79 have fully grasped the problem... and be it! you can do with the sweep command!. thank you all!! !

p.s. marcof, what program is that of your illustration?

 

[pompeo79]

solidworks

 

[marcof]

marcof and Pompeo79 have fully grasped the problem... and be it! you can do with the sweep command!. thank you all!! !

p.s. marcof, what program is that of your illustration?

solidworks

It is precisely because I have seen from his profile that "stabum" also uses solidwork that I thought he was looking for, in inventor, that option of the extruded command that in fact there is in solidworks and that allows to obtain results that with the only sweep without adding other features are not possible.
then in reality he was simply looking for the sweep command... and lived all happy and happy: