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You can also select any object and it will orbit around that part. It's easier because you dont need to get to the navigation wheel, you can just use the middle mouse button.

You can also get orbiting bij pressing the F4 key and the left click. With 3D mice it is also necessary to once in a while choose another orbit point. 3D Mouse uses the same orbit point.

This is the most useful command learnt from you. Thank you for sharing. Live from india ❤️

Any way to turn on automatic orbit centering on current view like it is in Fusion 360 ?

Fantastic, this will make modeling much more enjoyable for me.

Neil... agree the navigation wheel is garbage. However, you can use it to center the orbit as well. Just move the nav wheel over the model and click the "Center" button. It in the middle area, top left. When you click here, it sets this as the orbit center. I mostly use the F4 + LMB to orbit 99% of the time.

Ha, love the commentary. The steering wheel was always in my way. ...a real pain. Pick the sector you want and drive your cursor through it. It works, It just took me half a decade to "get it".

I didn't know that - thanks.

THANKS that will be a big help from now on!

Gracias

Nice tips and tricks Neil in your videos. Could you do a video or two on top-down design inside an assembly file? I have an issue that you may explain in one of your videos that I have never quite understood. When you create a part inside an assembly based on another part, you'll be at the point of selecting a face or a work plane for the sketch. When I click on one of the origin planes that's parallel to the face, everything is fine and I create the sketch on the corresponding face. But when I click on the face of the existing part to create a sketch, an adaptive work plane is created. Why would Inventor want to create this work plane when I select the face? This is totally unlike creating a part inside a *.ipt file.I just don't understand this unless it's specifically for the sketch to be adaptive. Thanks Neil for the help and keep up the good work.

Thank you so much!

Much appreciated!

Thank you!

Add to the video title "move pivot point" thank you again

You saved my life!

Nice trick!!!!!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

Hi Neil, one question about CONSTRAINT ORBIT, how to change of orbit axis?, I did it ones but I can´t anymore. I hope you can help me, thanks

Belta tip cheers Neil...nowt wrong with the tunes neither :)

Jesus. You may save me: im used to work on so called "architectural" display cube view, with X and Y on the ground and Z ax perpendicular to it. Being on assembly, after i set manually the default Inventor's cube orientation to what im used with, and starting a part, than a 2d sketch, my cube orientation is freaking out back to inventor's default. Returning to assembly, all good. Why the hell?

I absolutely love the videos, tips, and humor...but PLEEEASE leave out the corny music ;-)

Please add "move pivot point" to the title

i'm using shift+mmb and this doesn't work

Could you do a video tutorial on engraving a scale around the surface of a truncated cone? I have a rotary motion device which has a fixed part with a scale marked in 2 and 10 degree intervals (10 degree intervals marked with longer lines). The scale is labelled every 20 degrees around an angled face (0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20). The angle face tapers to a sharp edge where it meets the rotating central post. The post is marked with a single line to indicate position relative to the fixed part. Google goniometer head for an idea of what I'm working on.

haaaa really???? .......... thanks :,)