Upholstry modeling

[cbell1007]

I design cushions for airplane seats and am trying to display a leather cover on the cushions with pull lines for piping detailing. etc. I am also wondering if a leather material style is availble for DL online.

[JDMather]

http://forums.autodesk.com/autodesk/attachments/autodesk/78/405670/1/Seat.jpg

cloth rather than leather - but there are webistes (cbliss is one) that have material images.

I see you did a double post of the same question

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor/Modelling-Leather-Coverings/td-p/3573072/page/2

that is generally frowned upon as is causes confusion when someone else searches for solutions.

[cbell1007]

Yes i didnt mean to. I was hoping to be able to contact you to find out how you did that seat I saw as an example under the leather coverings post by a different person. How did you acheive what appears to be the piping?

[JDMather · Accepted solution]

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@cbell1007 wrote:

 How did you acheive what appears to be the piping?

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Sweep
http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/content/DSG322/Inventor%20Tutorials/Inventor%2011%20Tutorial%207.pdf

Note that the image of the seat I posted is very old now and this tutorial is out-of-date.

It is no longer necessary to extrude the surfaces to get the 3D path.  You can now project one 2D sketch onto another directly when creating the 3D sketch.