AutoDeks Inventor Fusion 2012

[BrokenBiker]

right, I am now fed up of trying every CAD/Moddeling program out there to see which is best suited to me.

I am currently finding inventor fusion quite easy to use, it does what I want first time and animating things is simple, which is what most of my modelling is done for, to prove something before making it.

2 things I am stuck with are:

making threads on a shaft i.e. a bolt

assembling a shaft in a bushing so the shaft will still rotate, but not move laterally. currently I have a handwheel that operates a sprocket, connected via a shaft and the shaft runs through a grounded block, the block cannot move, but the shaft will move in the y axis as well as rotate and I need to lock it in the y axis so it only rotates, if you get what I mean.

 

[bs2236]

You need to add a constraint to the end of the shaft, you should be able to constrain it to som other parallel geometry. If that is not possible the use the insert constraint to enter the shaft into the bush, you can set the offset distance in the constraint box

 

[AndyStobbs]

Lol by the time you've sussed it on pc you might have made 50% of it in the physical.

 

[BrokenBiker]

You need to add a constraint to the end of the shaft, you should be able to constrain it to som other parallel geometry. If that is not possible the use the insert constraint to enter the shaft into the bush, you can set the offset distance in the constraint box

will give it a go, thanks.

Lol by the time you've sussed it on pc you might have made 50% of it in the physical.

technically I already have what I need to make it, I have drawn it up with the same dimensions as the handwheel, sprocket and shaft that I have, just have to drill the right sized hole through the bushing and then drill and tap the ends of the shaft.

sadly, all of this effort is just so I can lift a drawbridge on a toy castle lol (request by a younger cousin) but it seemed like a asic thing to use to learn how to use fusion

 

[AndyStobbs]

I played with CAD in school, think it was Desktop pro IIRC. I could make simple things appear but I was no wizz at it. Seemed damn pointless as I could already see it in my minds eye haha.

 

[BrokenBiker]

I played with CAD in school, think it was Desktop pro IIRC. I could make simple things appear but I was no wizz at it. Seemed damn pointless as I could already see it in my minds eye haha.

when we did drawing in college we used totalCAD 3D, and in the entire year we used it twice and only used it to draw a round flange with 6 holes in and a frame. was totally useless, we spent the majority of the time trying to explain tolerances to the tutor...

 

[Tino]

when we did drawing in college we used totalCAD 3D, and in the entire year we used it twice and only used it to draw a round flange with 6 holes in and a frame. was totally useless, we spent the majority of the time trying to explain tolerances to the tutor...

When we did drawing in class, we used a t-square, pencil and paper.

 

[BrokenBiker]

When we did drawing in class, we used a t-square, pencil and paper.

most of our stuff was hand drawn, we had about 15 drawings to submit, but as the tutor didn't understand the CAD system we were allowed to hand draw them until he told us otherwise. we were never told otherwise

 

[Wendelspanswick]

When we did drawing in class, we used a t-square, pencil and paper.

At least we had parallel motion drawing boards, this was circa 1981.

 

[penfold]

At least we had parallel motion drawing boards, this was circa 1981.

When I did drawing in 1992-3 it was about 60% hand drawing 40% CAD on some fairly clunky Acorn things.