This page contains all the Inventor examples that were presented in class on September 12th. Also included are some examples of more complex objects. In the square brackets next to the description of the file are Inventor keywords. The use of these Inventor primitves/keywords is illustrated in the corresponding file. Files:
1. Coordinate Axes coordaxes.iv
2. Unit Cube, definition and instantiation [DEF, USE] unitcubedefinst.iv
3. Cube, with independently colored faces [materialIndex, Normal, NormalBinding, BaseColor] primarycube.iv
4. Cube, expressed as an indexed face set [IndexedFaceSet] cubeaspolygons.iv
5. Cube and Sphere [Cube, Sphere] cubesphere.iv
6. Two Cubes and Spheres [File] cubesphere2.iv
7. Eight Cubes, with and without coordinate axes eightcubes.iv , eightcubesA.iv
8. Many cubes, illustrates hierarchical modeling manycubes.iv
2. Dodecahedron dodeca.iv
3. Ellipsoid, illustrates anisotropic scaling ellipsoid.iv
4. Non-convex surface, illustrates how to model a non-convex planar polygon nonconvex.iv