Simple Inventor Examples

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.

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

More complex shapes

1. Tetrahedron [Normal, NormalBinding, IndexedFaceSet] tetrahedron.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

Other examples on imagery4


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