Autodesk Inventor - iCopy - Samples and Tutorial

Tool iCopy - Many designs require the creation of subassemblies which contain similar geometry, only the size or position in the main assembly is slightly different. The manual creation and positioning of these subassemblies is time consuming. The iCopy command automates the process of copying and positioning similar components in the main assembly. iCopy combines skeletal modeling and adaptivity to allow the subassembly to change shape to fit its position in the model. This workflow is beneficial for curtain wall panels, rungs on a ladder, frames, or any subassembly where the size varies based on the position in the main assembly.

[@AdrianSalariu-ADS]

I wish like would be available more than once; I would keep giving your videos thumbs up. Keep up the good work on ADSK forum and in here. ADS.

[@InventorVideoSolutions]

Thank you my friend! Really appreciate your words! Have a nice week and thanks again Adrian!

[@michaelibanez6488]

excelente video muchas gracias.

[@InventorVideoSolutions]

+Michael Ibanez Muchas gracias Michael!

[@saeedkazemi6161]

Very good

[@cadcraftschool]

interesting example. thanx

[@muchlisekopambudi7705]

it's just awesome !! high tumb

[@Shahinnnnn]

Hi, Any chance that you can show us how you have developed the parts i.e. the sheet metal part and the skeleton please?

[@tankaiken3159]

How can I make i copy sheet on the standing surface please

[@07sehali]

very good.

[@InventorVideoSolutions]

ali önay Thank you Ali!

[@CanhPham-oh6eh]

thank you so much !

[@InventorVideoSolutions]

+Canh Phamvan You are welcome Cahn. I am glad that it could helps you.

[@xDjordjeMx]

Canh Phamvan

[@eartheartbaratheon791]

Hi, those lines at 23:23 look like splines, are they though? Cause iCopy will not pick up spline as a rail for me :/

[@InventorVideoSolutions]

Hi. Try Splines interpolation.

[@eartheartbaratheon791]

@@InventorVideoSolutions It actually works, thanks a lot!

[@gacaptain]

All of the Icopy tutorials I've seen are showing how to copy relatively complicated assembles into patterns. I just want to know how to copy a very simple part several times into a large complex pattern. Specifically it's copying a simple boiler tube over a hundred times into a fairly complicated boiler tube array. I already have a sketch that shows the location of each tube relative to each other. I'm thinking it should be easy compared to what you guys are doing but Im not sure how you would approach this.

[@InventorVideoSolutions]

Hi, if you have a recent Inventor i suggest you to do not use iCopy, but a Sketch Pattern of points in the main part. Then in the assembly level constraint one part in the fisrt point , then pattern using the link option in the pattert tool in the assembly level.

[@gacaptain]

Hi Thanks for the response. I have already done it using that method but it's still somewhat time consuming because there are up to as many as over 200 tubes and the patterns are in groups of 10 or less tubes in rows that don't line up with each other. Long story short I have to use more than 30 different patterns to get them all placed. It would save me a ton of time if I could just order the ends of the tubes to each constrain to a point on the sketch if that were possible. I hate using imates by the way. They are extremely fickle, you have to do a lot of zooming in and out to make sure you select just the right thing and require more time to set up and use properly than you save.

[@dankas98]

The Audio doesn't work

[@josecarranza126]

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