Objectives:

• Demonstrate the View Cube and SteeringWheels
• Understand view tools to help navigate 3D model space efficiently.

This lesson describes the use of the various view manipulation tools in the modeling and drawing environments.

You view all aspects of your 3D geometry by navigating around in 3D space. The view manipulation tools enable you to quickly perform these tasks in a manner that is intuitive and efficient.

In the following illustration, a constrained orbit is used to rotate the assembly and change the view orientation. The ViewCube, in the upper right corner of the graphics window, is shown with the compass displayed. The ViewCube rotates with the model and aids in the orientation of the model.

Please refer to the link for this video at

Objectives:

• To copy 2D sketch across the application, from AutoCad to Inventor
• Create 3D model using 2D to 3D tool
• Create fastener by using design accelerator in assembly environement
• Dimension labeling, sectional view, detail view and part list feature in 2D drawing

I had visited few prospects previously and I found that most of the company still using AutoCad 2D product in their daily design environment. Even though they understand the benefits they can get if they migrate from 2D into 3D modeling, but still stick with current 2D design environment with the reason they don’t have enough manpower and skill to migrate the existing 2D drawing into 3D. I can understand the pain point of what our prospect having to keep the current design process moving and to pick up 3D modeling skill concurrently.

The transition period for the migration is painful, but perhaps this post will give you some basic idea on how easy for you to get your 3D model base on your existing 2D drawing with the aid of 2D to 3D tool in Autodesk Inventor.

The addition of the 2D to 3D tool on the Feature ribbon bar allows users to quickly and easily take existing 2D drawings that have orthographic views and convert them to 3D parts and assembly’s.

It’s a simple process that has three quick steps once you have opened or inserted the 2D drawing:

1 .Select the base plane

2. Select the base sketch

3. Select the projected sketches

If the sketches don’t quite align as you expected, use the Align Sketch tool. 2D to 3D tool allow you to create a multi-body part from the sketches and then create the assembly from the solids.

To download the 2D to 3D for Autodesk Inventor 2012 (and previous versions), just visit the Autodesk Labs site below….

http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/2d_to_3d_tool/

Last, please refer to our video in Youtube for idea of how it works, together with some basic functionality in Inventor 2012. Let get your first leap from here onwards.

Illustration below showing a 3D model, it consisting of both 2D sketch geometry with dimensional constraints and using extrusion feature to makes it into 3D solid geometry.

Sketch 1 is sketch feature whereas Extrusion 1 (base feature) was used to extrude Sketch 1 into 3D solid geometry. Fillet 1 and Fillet 2 called placed feature. Chamfer, shell, hole and etc also categories under placed features.

On a recent project for The Boeing Company, Valiant used Autodesk Inventor software and Autodesk Algor Simulation software to more efficiently design and engineer a portable cargo loader. The complex design called for eight telescopic hydraulic cylinders, each capable of lifting 90,000 pounds. With help from Inventor, Valiant was able to design and package telescopic cylinders in three sections instead of the usual four, increasing load capacity while reducing cost. Additionally, the advanced finite element analysis (FEA) functionality in Algor Simulation helped enable Valiant to minimize the weight of the design while meeting customer performance requirements.

 “With Inventor software, we’re able to be much more competitive,” said Marty Solcz, chief operating officer of Valiant. “Our engineers can spend 80 percent of their mental energy innovating and 20 percent deciding how to draw lines. Inventor software frees us up to think about the next big idea. With the added talents of our people, that creates outstanding possibilities and potential.”

Digital Prototyping Across Multiple Industries

 Valiant uses the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping in all areas of its business. The company’s automotive division, for example, frequently designs automated assembly systems for automotive body and power-train manufacturing, among other tasks, with up to 200,000 parts, and as many as 8,000 unique parts.

 Using the advanced dynamic simulation functionality in Autodesk Inventor software, Valiant’s engineers can perform on-the-fly validation to check for possible interference between thousands of different parts throughout the range of operation. In addition, the iAssemblies and iParts functionality in Inventor software has enabled Valiant to develop a library of models, promoting reuse while reducing the time required creating new line layouts. Working in conjunction with Autodesk Gold Partner, SolidCAD, Valiant estimates that giving its global workers — who often work in parallel on the same project — access to Inventor software results in efficiency improvements of up to 30 percent.

 The benefits of Autodesk software also extend beyond design and engineering phases: Valiant can take a model developed in Inventor software and photorealistically render it with Autodesk 3ds Max software, creating a stunning visual for marketing materials, proposals and even maintenance manuals.

 “Autodesk software is providing competitive value to Valiant and its customers at every stage of the product lifecycle — from design and engineering, to marketing and promotion, to post-sales service,” said Robert “Buzz” Kross, senior vice president, Manufacturing Industry Group at Autodesk.

 Attainable: The Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping provides an easy to deploy and manage solution for mainstream manufacturers to create and maintain a single digital model that can be used in all stages of production.

 Cost-effective: Delivering cost-effective software for design and manufacturing workgroups, an Inventor-based Digital Prototyping solution delivers the fastest path to ROI. Autodesk has a proven record of making powerful desktop technology available to mainstream manufacturers.

According to an independent study by the Aberdeen Group, best-in-class manufacturers use Digital Prototyping to build half the number of physical prototypes as the average manufacturer, get to market 58 days faster than average, experience 48 percent lower prototyping costs, and ultimately drive greater innovation in their products. The Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping helps customers achieve results like these.

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In the conceptual design phase, industrial designers and engineers often use paperbased methods or digital formats that are incompatible with the digital information used in the engineering phase. A lack of digital data, compatible formats, and automation keeps this island separate from engineering—the conceptual design data must be recreated digitally downstream, resulting in lost time and money.

In the engineering phase, mechanical and electrical engineers use different systems and formats, and a lack of automation makes it difficult to capture and rapidly respond to change requests from manufacturing. Another problem in the engineering phase: the geometric focus of typical 3D CAD software makes it difficult to create and use a digital prototype to validate and optimize products before they are built, making it necessary to build multiple costly physical prototypes.

Manufacturing is at the downstream end of all the broken digital processes—the disconnection between the conceptual design phase, the engineering components, electrical, and mechanical— and they receive this analog information in the form of drawings. The result is a heavy reliance on physical prototypes and the subsequent impact on productivity and innovation.

 Disconnected product development processes make it difficult to bring customer and marketing requirements into the process early so customers can see exactly what the product will look like and validate how it will function before it is delivered. The inability to involve the customer early in the product development process means that the customer can’t validate a design before the product goes to manufacturing. Customer requests for changes become exponentially more expensive to address the further along the product is in the manufacturing process. The result: companies have to build multiple physical prototypes for customer validation.

 Design: Integrate all design data into a single digital model, streamlining the design process and increasing communication.

 Visualize: Create a virtual representation of the final product to review design intent, secure early customer validation, and market products before they’re built.

 Simulate: Digitally simulate the real-world performance of your product, saving the time and money required to build multiple physical prototypes.

 Inventor enables manufacturers to create a digital prototype, helping reduce reliance on costly physical prototypes and get more innovative products to market faster. The Autodesk® solution for Digital Prototyping brings together design data from all phases of the product development process into a single digital model created in Inventor. 

Quality: Digital prototyping it is a true digital representation of the entire product and can be used to visualize and simulate a product, helps you to get the better quality product.

Cost: The ability of simulate the product digitally reduces their reliance and necessity of building expensive physical prototypes.

Deliverability: design, visualize, and simulate products from the conceptual design phase through the manufacturing process, boosting the level of communication with different stakeholders while getting more innovative products to market faster

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 It is important for you to have an active project file before starting to create any file, and set the project active.

 Procedure to create a project file:

 1. Click ‘Project’ at Get Started Tab.

2. Select ‘New’ in the Projects dialog box, and make sure you select ‘New Single User Project’ and click ‘Next’.

3. Fill in the name for the project file. In this example, I used Phitomas as my project file name, with project workspace folder in C:\ Users\psbsl06\Documents\Inventor\Phitomas\

Last, make sure the project file created is activated before you start your modeling, the ‘check’ sign on the left of the project name indicate that the following project is activated. That all for this post and thank for following us in http://phitomas.com/

Let takes one scenario as an example, with the username and password created by administrator from our company Phitomas to our customer, he/she able to access the released data stored in Vault. He/she can access the data in anywhere as long as there have internet connection, without the need of install any Autodesk application in the computer. Just type in internet browser,

http: (servername)/AutodeskDM/WebClient

and sign in with the respective username and password, you able to view the data in light weight .dwf format via Autodesk free application, Autodesk Design Review. You can add your comment, callout in the 3D modelling and attach it by email to reveal your needs on the particular design.

For more information on how this web client did, check out the video link below: