Hydraulics, Cartridge Cavities , ifeature

[twinz3950]

I would like to create an ifeature for common hydraulic cartridge  cavities that we use, how ever I am not sure how to go about it. Does any one know if there are any libraries  already with varies cartridge cavities sizes; Or can anyone give advice on how to approach creating such an ifeature.  My company is running Inventor 2012 professional.  Thanks.

[blair]

You should be able to extract the items you need to create your iFeature:

http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/Inventor/enu/2014/Help/1283-Inventor1283/1718-Parts1718/2147-iFeature21...

[Mark.Downes]

Hi Twinz3950

We use a bolt on program called MDTools for manifold design.

Easy to use and has a large cavity library, might be worth a look to see if it suits your needs

Cheers

Mark

Inventor 2013

[twinz3950]

Thank you for you reply.  I can create the base main cartridge cavities with extracting features from my model to create the ifeature; however I would like to take it one step further, Is there any way that I can create the the base cavity feature as well as create the cross drilled ports for the cavities with the same ifeature.  This is the area that I can not figure out.  Ultimately I would like an ifeatue that would create the cartridge cavities and the cross drilled ports.  Is this possible?

[blair]

I would just ccreate a separate iFeature for the cross hole. You should be able to create a table driven one with the depth as being table driven.

[twinz3950]

Thankyou  for your suggestion I will try creating two separate ifeatures.