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We had a custom part needed to be fabricated, guy bent bar stock to desired shape, gave to me. Now I am trying to reverse engineer to get manufacturing drawings and try to figure out the best way to get a straight length. I created a 3d sketch and sweep on the line for the shape. I can measure the s...
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Hi I am having a problem with the SWEEP command. I have defined a 2d polyline profile which i want to sweep along a 3D polyline alignment. If I use a basepoint in the middle of the profile (red circle) the function fails, if however I use another point (green square) the command works....
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I tried slotting a plate along an irregular line by SWEEPing an extruded hole alone a spline No luck! Inventor 2015 does not select the spline as a path. I must have this wrong somehow but I cannot find any tutorial material that covers it. Can someone please tell me the right way. Tha...
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Hey I am a new user to autocad Inventor and already watched a lot of tutorials. So I really start to get the hang of it. Now i'm trying to make a barbecue design but I don't really find how to solve the legs. As you can see the ends have two different end angles. And how I can make thi...
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I am trying to draw an octagonal luminaire arm with a slight taper for a light pole by sweeping along a polyline profile. Sometimes it lets me do it, most of the time it doesn't. I can do a scaled sweep along a straight path and an unscaled sweep along a curved path, but I cannot do a scaled sweep...
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Can't seem to coincident-constrain two shapes on different planes
lizazelle posted a topic in Autodesk Inventor
I am trying to make a stylized model of a molecule and having some issues. Here's the sketch of what I'm trying to create: So far, I've been able to sweep a circle around a hexagon-shaped path, which will create the single-bonds in the benzene ring in the finished product: I made a cir... -
FLATSHOT not hiding obscured lines in swept solid
KCorby posted a topic in AutoCAD 3D Modelling & Rendering
I have a swept solid that FLATSHOT will not hide the obscured lines for. In the FLATSHOT dialogue box, I have tried all options, with different results. Does anyone know a setting that I can change or alternate method that I can use to get 2D geometry from this solid that I can use in my 2D drawing?... -
I'm having a problem sweeping a curved object over a spline. The object will sweep over a straight line...but not on the spline. I keep getting "unable to sweep object(s)" in the command line. I could be doing it all wrong... I've attached the file. Any help will be appreciated. WE ACAD.zip
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Hi CADTutor. I am new to this forum. I need some help on a project i'm currently trying to do and I have no idea where to begin. I am hoping some kind soul out there will show me the way.. I am fairly new to Solidworks but not a complete newbie. The main commands I know is the Extrude, Cut, She...
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Hello, I am having trouble modeling a multi-layered solenoid in solidworks. The issue arises when I sweep a sketch around a 3D curve that describes my helix. Although the sweep is done as "follow path" the shape is produced correctly for the first turn after which it starts sloping instead o...
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Twister bulb - cant sweep along spline?
John Kimble posted a topic in AutoCAD 3D Modelling & Rendering
Hey, I'm pretty new to Autocad and I'm trying to draw one of those new energy-saving lightbulbs in 3D. It's a Phillips Mini Decorative Twister bulb to be exact. I'm trying to make it as accurate as possible. I have the base done and I did the spiral/middle part of the bulb, but I ran into a problem... -
Hi all, A little new to inventor. Using inventor 2010. I am trying to use a 3d intersection curve to create a sweep. I want to use the 3d curve as the profile but am not able to select it. If the image works the two lines in blue are the 2d sketches that were used to create the 3d...