Autodesk Inventor
Has your boss seen this?....... you did it all at home right?
:-)
JOhn
"Diemaker" wrote in message
news:6n7etvgl13v3iceictip44ataa9ef4g9un@4ax.com...
> See .avi in IVCF, warning - size is 10 megs.
> Thought someone would enjoy a little levity for the holidays. This
> started as the constraints tutorial on Adsk web site. It worked so
> well I decided to keep adding till IV broke. It's not surprising I
> ended up with something that looked like a stamping press, complete
> with feeder, de-reeler and oil spray. Then I decided to get cute and
> add a sailboat to the oil reservoir... that's when it turned into a
> toy. No better way to learn than repetition, and I replicated. The
> first 5 hours everything was breaking on every move. After I figured
> it out, I couldn't believe how easy and solid it was. It's all stock
> constraints driven by the blue crank gear. No equations or macros. IV
> lasted longer than I did, but it got pretty slow to work with. I'm
> thinking IV would be very popular if it sold for $59.00 and was called
> Inventor Tycoon.
)>
>
:-)
JOhn
"Diemaker"
news:6n7etvgl13v3iceictip44ataa9ef4g9un@4ax.com...
> See .avi in IVCF, warning - size is 10 megs.
> Thought someone would enjoy a little levity for the holidays. This
> started as the constraints tutorial on Adsk web site. It worked so
> well I decided to keep adding till IV broke. It's not surprising I
> ended up with something that looked like a stamping press, complete
> with feeder, de-reeler and oil spray. Then I decided to get cute and
> add a sailboat to the oil reservoir... that's when it turned into a
> toy. No better way to learn than repetition, and I replicated. The
> first 5 hours everything was breaking on every move. After I figured
> it out, I couldn't believe how easy and solid it was. It's all stock
> constraints driven by the blue crank gear. No equations or macros. IV
> lasted longer than I did, but it got pretty slow to work with. I'm
> thinking IV would be very popular if it sold for $59.00 and was called
> Inventor Tycoon.
)>>
This is very cool. I am going to assume that you used Animator to
create it. If this is the case then you may not have hit Inventor's
limit but rather ran out of memory in Animator. The solution to that is
to break it up into several segments.
Diemaker wrote:
>See .avi in IVCF, warning - size is 10 megs.
>Thought someone would enjoy a little levity for the holidays. This
>started as the constraints tutorial on Adsk web site. It worked so
>well I decided to keep adding till IV broke. It's not surprising I
>ended up with something that looked like a stamping press, complete
>with feeder, de-reeler and oil spray. Then I decided to get cute and
>add a sailboat to the oil reservoir... that's when it turned into a
>toy. No better way to learn than repetition, and I replicated. The
>first 5 hours everything was breaking on every move. After I figured
>it out, I couldn't believe how easy and solid it was. It's all stock
>constraints driven by the blue crank gear. No equations or macros. IV
>lasted longer than I did, but it got pretty slow to work with. I'm
>thinking IV would be very popular if it sold for $59.00 and was called
>Inventor Tycoon.)>
>
>
>
create it. If this is the case then you may not have hit Inventor's
limit but rather ran out of memory in Animator. The solution to that is
to break it up into several segments.
Diemaker wrote:
>See .avi in IVCF, warning - size is 10 megs.
>Thought someone would enjoy a little levity for the holidays. This
>started as the constraints tutorial on Adsk web site. It worked so
>well I decided to keep adding till IV broke. It's not surprising I
>ended up with something that looked like a stamping press, complete
>with feeder, de-reeler and oil spray. Then I decided to get cute and
>add a sailboat to the oil reservoir... that's when it turned into a
>toy. No better way to learn than repetition, and I replicated. The
>first 5 hours everything was breaking on every move. After I figured
>it out, I couldn't believe how easy and solid it was. It's all stock
>constraints driven by the blue crank gear. No equations or macros. IV
>lasted longer than I did, but it got pretty slow to work with. I'm
>thinking IV would be very popular if it sold for $59.00 and was called
>Inventor Tycoon.
)>>
>
>
