Hi!
Is there a way in Inventor (or any other Autodesk Design Suite program) to find the point on a cone (attached jpg) where the lifting lug should go so that when lifted, the cone stays in the same orientation as in the attached picture.
Thanks.
You could try turning on the center of gravity and attaching the lug so the hole is in line with it.
I made a real simple cone, applied the appropriate material, then used the "X" value of the COG to located the lug.
Unfortunately I don't think there is a way to automatically pull the COG value directly into the dimension.
I've attached the part.
John,
The CoG ends up being on the inside of the Cone so simply going straight up to the edge of the cone would change the balance point should it not?
I constructed the model with the origin being centered on the centerline of the cone, and dimensioned the lug to the origin using the COG X value.
As long as the lug is directly over the COG, the part should always be balanced, since the lug itself is included in the COG calculations.