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Modelling Inventor Castings?

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DH3
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Modelling Inventor Castings?

Hi,
Being a relatively new user in Inventor (6) - can anyone please point me in the right direction regarding modelling complex casting shapes? a tutorial would be helpful please.
Our castings are/where done using multiple datum curves in Pro Eng and a mesh surface created between the intersecting datum curves.
I know that IV has the swept "rail" type function...but it doesnt seem to solve my requirements.
Regards
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Anonymous
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This is something that Inventor doesn't do very
well yet.  The only tool available is rail lofted surfaces and those can be
tricky.  Version 6 was the first version to even address this situation,
hopefully more capabilities will emerge with version 8.  I do a lot of
casting and injection molding design with IV.  I haven't seen any really
good tutorial on IV surface modeling except for the basics in the help
file.  From there I'm pretty much self taught.  Most surfaces can be
generated in IV but it's not always easy.  You'll need to get comfortable
switching between solid modeling and surface modeling in the same part. 
For very complex surfaces you may have to work in another surface modeler like
Rhino or Pro E and then import the surface back to IV.  The results of this
can often be unpredictable, so watch out.

 

Pat


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Hi,

Being a relatively new user in Inventor (6) - can anyone please point me
in the right direction regarding modelling complex casting shapes? a tutorial
would be helpful please.
Our castings are/where done using multiple datum
curves in Pro Eng and a mesh surface created between the intersecting datum
curves.
I know that IV has the swept "rail" type function...but it doesnt
seem to solve my requirements.
Regards

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