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Work with origin geometry

Work with origin geometry - Inventor Tutorial

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Work with origin geometry

- [Instructor] Let's take a moment to look at the origin geometry. You saw me interacting with the origin geometry in the previous movie briefly. And I wanted to take a moment and dig in a little further so that you understand why they're so important. The origin geometry and the components that make up the origin can be found in the browser here at the top. Clicking the plus symbol next to the origin folder exposes all of the items that build the origin for essentially every part and assembly you're going to create. By default Inventor has these items turned off and we'll turn them on if needed automatically. If I right click and select new sketch, you'll notice that they all become visible and they show up in the graphics window. This will allow me to select a flat face to begin sketching on. If I hit escape you'll see that Inventor automatically turns them off and returns to the previous state. You can always…

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