Harvester of Sorrow

Hi everyone
This is the first thing i have ever made in Inventor.
What do you think?

MiL

I think you're fibbing! Come on now, the FIRST thing ever, you didn't practice at all??


LOL, i'm just heckling ya. It's excellent! You must have previous 3D experience eh?

jacs

Since a similar exits as a model when you install inventor, you don't need so much experience like an expert but anyone can do it.

Give us a reasonable time that it took you on making it then we can decide.

But like the previous speaker said. It looks good.

Keep up the good work.

Closterman

This PC-6 are also designed with Inventor, but it's not my first project...

Harvester of Sorrow

it took me 3 weeks to make it
i have had experience with the program at school

dr_wogz

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Inventor is a sweet program. beter than Mech desktop, but a bear to learn if you are proficient with Mech desktop, like myself!

Good work! Did you link the various parts together? as in the stoke & bore size & the case size? and linked to teh piston, and liner? SO you only need change one or two variables, and the whole engine will update itself?!

Could you render it in wood for us?

Check out charles' site. www.cbliss.com as well as Sean Dotson's site www.sdotson.com and of course, www.mymcad.com

As for 'time it took' Autodesk's Invetor forum have what is called a 'soccer game' where you must design and develope a part to meet a set of criteria. The shortest time wins! Quite fun!

MiL

I'm going to be starting a new design project soon and am considering doing it in 3D. I've got a LITTLE experience in autocad, Pro/E and Inventor and prefer inventor for 3D work. I have version 5 though and i see it's up to 8 now. Is 8 much better and/or easier to use than 5? Will it make much of a difference for me? If it will, i can upgrade. If its not really much different, i won't bother.

I would imagine that from 5 to 8 there must be quite a difference though, i'll probably try to upgrade before starting my project.

Losibasher

Wow, great job. Really like the detail of the sleeve and glow plug. Also the tiny servos on the wings of the PC-6.

Harvester of Sorrow

dr_wogz
The parts are linked together and they move if you turn the crank shaft with your mouse.
I could not find a wood texture but i made it rusty for you.

dr_wogz

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You've assembled teh parts. So they know what relation to keep with each other.. this face mates to that one, this screw is mated to the hole, and mated the face, that face is fluch with that face, and offset by 0.125", etc..

No, what I meant is if the design was drawn up with a few 'global' variables.. And a few of your parametric dimensions are based on an equation, a formula.. For examplethe stroke will always equal 0.75 the bore: d16= d4*.75 or sotmhign like that, or d5=width, and 'width is a variable from a spreadsheet (which itself can be an equation..) get me?

You shoudl have teh stroke, bore, shaft diameter as variables, global specs, that can easily be changed..

this also lends itself to better and smarter desing, such as, you can dimension a hole to always remain cetnered on a face, by giving the equation: d2=d1/2 (you can also use a construciton line, but...)

And that's where some of the real power lies!

dr_wogz

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I never knew Aluminum could rust!!

(you can change teh properties / scale of teh rust on each part!)