okay... i have no idea what you're designing so let's name and define, for the purposes of the exercise, a few parts.
firstly, the BASE, which is just a block with a hole, the SHAFT, which is (would you believe it) and shaft, and GEAR1 and GEAR2, which are two shapes, with holes in them, that...
Hey guys,
I'm in a position where I need to cut a lot of sprockets. Of course, existing sprocket manufacturers aren't too keen on giving me the profile of the tooth, and I've had no luck google-hunting.
Can anyone point me to an information source for the correct design of sprocket teeth? The...
hey kurt, if carol bartz drives a mazda miata, i'll change my name to elvis!
the car3 bitmap was originally just a 'quickie' two of the guys took in the carpark at autodesk's michigan facility (i think), but turned out to be the best they could create! i've never found an image that's looked as...
i'll try to fill in the couple of gaps that designermike wasn't sure about. i'm not a sheetmetal expert either but i have set up a strip-type die and have a strategy to suit your question...
you want to look into setting up a SKELETAL model. the inventor newsgroup that mike pointed you at is...
Doc, interesting reading, thank you.
Franz... yes, you read the invisible lines correctly. Basically, my logic went thus:
in a turbo/super-charged car, you often have an intercooler, to bring down intake temps. In an LPG powered car, you use radiator fluid to add heat to the vaporising gas, to...
thanks greg... from looking at the major oil company sites i've managed to find out that our blends (i'm pretty sure you're an aussie, yeah?) are fairly close to 50/50 propane/butane, so by following that i should be able to obtain most of the physical data i need.
or i could, if i knew exactly...
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to figure out how much energy LPG (liquid petroleum gas) absorbs as it evaporates, ready to be fed into the engine.
The system that I'm familiar with uses the engine coolant to keep the converter (the device that controls the evaporation of the LPG) from freezing as the...
inventor HATES anti-virus programs, because it opens so many files as once.
i set norton to ignore inventor files...
oh yeah, and you should definitely work on the local machine for performance reasons. look into creating personal workspaces for group projects... works really well.
normal dimension tool.
click arc, then before you place the dimension right click and choose "arc length" from the "dimension type" list...
ah, the old "how do i constrain a coil?" question...
everyone gets stuck on this.
okay, firstly, to create the coil initially, you must have selected an axis (a work axis or a sketch line) to complete the command. so, make that axis or line visible, and use it in a mate constraint to...
your best bet is to save-copy-as out of R6 and select SAT files. the result will be "dumb" (no parametric intelligence) unfortunately.
there's nothing else you can do really...
just try different video drivers... hopefully you'll find one that does the trick. inventor much prefers nvidia cards, but you should be able to get it going with what you've got...
skeletal modeling - a big subject... and not a "feature" of inventor per se... more an extremely powerful accident, and not documented as a result.
very briefly: ever used the derived component tool? you can use it to "suck" information from one part to another, be it the...
BackAHL is the application that performs the precise view generation of inventor drawings. what you may notice when you first place a view on a drawing sheet is that the icon for that view in the browser appears red and "half-cooked"... this means that the view has only been...
once a sketch is into inventor (which may be made easier by following the above tips...), you can use the automatic dimensioning tool to help constrain it. first project the origin point of the part file into the sketch to allow you something to lock onto.
then start auto dimension, check OFF...
okay, this will be difficult to explain, and i don't have inventor here at home so i can't even try it, but give this a shot:
model your sphere as a revolution, making sure you projected the origin point of the part file onto the sketch so the sphere is definitely locked onto the centre of...
