CHAPTER 11
Building with the Frame Generator
Inventor's specialized tools help you shortcut arduous and repetitive processes. The design accelerators and plastic part features you worked with in earlier chapters are great examples of this.
Another is the Frame Generator. The frames you create with this tool are constructed from dozens of metal shapes contained in the Content Center. Once they're placed, you can control how the frame members are joined together, and if the skeleton they're based on changes, the members will update as well.
- Creating metal frames
- Editing metal frames
Creating Metal Frames
To build a frame, you must have a sketch (2D or 3D) or a solid model to use as a skeleton. You place the frame members by selecting edges or ...
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