Haters gonna hate. I don't get it either. Thx for another quality upload Neil

Your waffling is why I watch your videos man! Keep up the good work! Always learn something from your videos.

If that was me, it wouldn't be the first time I clicked the wrong thing (aiming can be hard). Nothing but love for you, here so apologies if it was indeed me. :-/

Putin was fast to hit the dislike button in protest of me using his image.

TFI Yes, I wondered who would dislike a video with an introduction of this caliber!

+Fraser Muir We're at two dislikes now! That's the fastest two dislikes I've ever had, I must be triggering the sensitive souls with the Kardashian Putin collaboration there haha trolololololol

+fjnagle2nd I said that to explain the purpose of project geometry. Towards the end I explain and demonstrate that it auto projects when dimensioning.

Apologies, I was busy typing my comment, I will re watch. always enjoy your content...

Unfortunately not, it's on the IdeaStation though here so feel free to vote it up forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/project-geometry-as-construction/idi-p/4827911

Yes, just pre-select "construction" command before you start to project geometry. Doing this will project construction lines/curves. It also works with "project cut edges" command. "Project to 3D sketch" does not make a constuction line during 2D sketch enviroment but it works in 3D sketch enviroment "Project Curve to Surface" , "Intersection Curve" and "Include Geometry" commands. Maybe we need a preset button to activate-deactivate contruction line under "Autoproject Edges for Sketch creation and edit" in the app options. Hope this helps :)

+richendes I think the videos on twitch only stay up for a set time before they disappear, I just haven't had time recently to live stream and with only 20-30 people showing up it wasn't really something I could justify doing regularly! So the give away is still going to happen, given that I was going to pick someone from the twitch stream I think I'll instead pick someone who followed my twitch and do it that way instead of being a live giveaway. But it's still definitely happening!

Ah fair enough. I've never been able to watch them live anyway, being from Australia. Either way, thanks for all your effort at producing all these videos, I really appreciate your content and laid back style!

I don't really get what you would like to do but you can use the Bend part command on sheet metal parts, too. You can find it on 3D Model tab->Modify->Bend part.

Huh, I thought it sounded like Lars.

I would like to bump Mr. Browns request for assembly references !!! Something along the lines of > Do's and Don't's of assembly references < I keep coming to a place where I based a part on 2 parts; then one or more needs to change (or just flat out deleted&restarted) and it just gets messy. Typically the mess happens when i'm 10 parts in and realize that i've modeled myself into an assembly which doesn't do well with major changes. Perhaps 'adaptivity' is the real *SS muncher... AND Neil you are the one to do the job!!! your waffling on about real world situations is uber helpful!! No one else goes into the depth you do !!

This is the point where I give up on project/assembly references, and instead link all my parts to a spreadsheet with parameters! Change in the spreadsheet and all the linked Inventor files automatically update! not sure how well this works with very large assemblies tho, as I've only done small assemblies with this method (less than 300 parts)..... Using assembly reference I had the same problem of always having breaks as soon as you want to make the smallest of changes

aww, don't give up dood !! I think many of our woes **might** be caz there are far less erroneous actions than plausible solutions and near zero tutorials go over the "ya, don't try that even though it seems obvious that it should work!" o'reilly / lynda /etc ,, hardly(if at all) touch the 'don'ts'. thats not their job. They cover very essential points. Its people like TFI/Neil that can guide us through the real shit. For the people who need to do more than mimic... Who are already past the gate.... Anyways ... I haven't done the spreadsheet thing yet. Is there an advantage over than just using the parameters ? Isn't it the same thing, just a different place ? ? I must point out though that reference dimensions is likely a topic requiring its own attention. Whereas, the topic Mr. Brown and I were requesting is on the subject of reference geometry. I know at some level there are similarities and I fully respect your contribution. Plus there are many situations which the correct path to take is using shared dimensions/parameters !! However, that is totally a different situation than changing the actual geometry of a part / removing a feature only to discover, ya I referenced that somewhere!! shiitake !! Changing an extruded square to a circle. changing angled lines to flat lines got me once... If we are all speaking open, I must admit I have been wondering if using assembly level sketches would help the situation of cross part association/unresolved references. Kind of like a 3rd party linker thing. Could probably use some basic sketch elements and when needs change just mod certain stuffz. On the same token I have been wondering whats up with using assembly planes. When are they preferred ? When will they fail ? Hopefully its as obvious as why i prefer to cook eggs on a frying pan rather than my GF's stomach.. caz she only likes to get oiled up 3 weeks out of the month. Sure, I could spend the time and do a bunch of mock ups and figure it out. However, if someone has been modeling for a long time and wishes to share... That saves the world loads of redundant human effort