From the course: Autodesk Inventor 2018 Essential Training
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Parameters - Inventor Tutorial
From the course: Autodesk Inventor 2018 Essential Training
Parameters
- [Voiceover] Throughout this course, you've heard me talk about adding intelligence to a sketch. Parameters are one of the ways you can do that, and you might not know it, but you've already been using them. As a matter of fact, when you were learning about dimensions, Inventor was already creating parameters for you. In most cases, the parameters that Inventor creates automatically are gonna work just fine, but knowing how to manipulate parameters and use them to your advantage can be incredibly helpful during your design process. Let's look at parameters a little more closely. We're gonna need a new part file, I have that open on the screen. If you don't have one, go ahead and open a new part file, and let's create a sketch. I'm gonna right click and select New Sketch, and I'm gonna select the XY plane out of the origin geometry. We'll go ahead and pan down and to the left to give ourselves a little bit of room to work. Now we're gonna right click and select Two Point Rectangle…
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