HiI've just started using Inventor, and I was wordering how to make a piece of cloth.I've made a miniature beach-chair.and here's the real-life modelas you can see I need to fit a piece of cloth between the two "light-wood" postshope you guys can give me some poiterscheersSilverviper

maybe you can try to draw a curve plane and change the material type into sumthin that looks like a cloth...

It's not that difficult, but you need to think about it slightly different.Instead of making an object with thousands of holes (which would be a big file) you make a curved surface (either extruded or lofted).Then change the material to something like expanded metal or texture (you can play around with the materialhttp://www.mcadforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9581