Adding non-uniformly spaced grooves to a shaft

[tomcas]

I’m a newbie and I’m looking for the easiest way to place a series of the same sized groove on a shaft where the grooves are not equally spaced apart. Ideally each individual groove would be located a specific distance from the end of the shaft. Currently I’m creating work planes for each groove and extruding the groove at each plane. There’s got to be an easier way. I tried a linear array but I can’t delete the original groove afterward and still retain the array. Any suggestions?

Tom

 

[rollupswx]

revolve cut

 

[aardvarkdw]

Perhaps a picture would help. There are several ways to accomplish what I THINK you are trying to do.

David

 

[InventorGod]

Yes, send us pics. are they teeth or just grooves, because if they are grooves, you can just make a sketch the size of the shaft, then cut the grooves out, but if the are teeth then that's a different story, so pics would help.

 

[tomcas]

I will try to upload the file. It's embarrassing because it so simple but I'm and old AutoCAD guy who is struggling with Inventor right now. I can get it done but I know it's not the right or simplest way. Ideally I would just enter the shaft overall length and the groove locations just as I have drawn. Thanks guys.

 

[pgannon18]

I think there is a shaft generator which should simplify this task. However, you could also draw each groove in a sketch, making the sketch lines equal so you only have to dimension one groove, then revolve cut.