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Parameters - Inventor Tutorial

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Parameters

- [Instructor] Throughout this course, you've heard me talk about adding intelligence to sketch geometry. We've done that in a couple of ways so far. We've either created geometric constraints or dimensional constraints. Now we're going to look at how parameters fit into the mix. On the screen, I have a blank part and we need a new sketch to begin. We can right click in the graphics window and select new sketch, and then we can select the X,Y plane from the orange and geometry, and pan down into the left to give ourselves some room to work. We're now ready to create a basic rectangle. And while you might not have noticed, you've been using parameters all along, because in the background every single time you create a dimension, Inventor is creating a parameter to hold the value of that dimension. Let me show you what I mean. If we right click and select two point rectangle, we can hover over the center point and…

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