Mating to square holes in Autodesk Inventor

[Barin]

What you probably want is a parts library that includes support for iMates. These will include the “pre-placed circular holes” for the purposes of the iMates.

Of course, it is possible to implement the circles and/or iMates yourself:

Autodesk Inventor "Best Practices" and "Tips/tricks"

The CAD forum is not very active but I’m going to try and get this thread going as it’s the CAD season again with (hopefully) lots of new designs underway. I’ve learnt just enough about Autodesk Inventor to have realized that I need to be changing the way I do certain things to improve productivity. The first thing I wanted to tackle was adding bearing flats, screws and nuts to a design as this has been taking far too much time. So here are my first ideas. Modify some parts to use iMates. …