Hello all,
I'm a designer for a custom fabrication shop in NC. We build pressure vessels, columns, heat exchangers, etc. We use 2D AutoCAD for our design drawing/fab prints. I've been looking into the 3D route. If any of you can help me in anyway it would be very helpful.
Thank you in advance for all your help.
Steve
We produce vessel drawings entirely in Inventor and are developing systems to help automate the process . My concept is to start with an excel spreadsheet that identies and locates every component . It is a work in progress.
hello,
we are starting doing pressure vessels in Inventor. only my boss wants to have a top view with all nozzle angles and a "front view" were all nozzles are on the side of the tank so you can you can dimension the height and length from the centerline of the tanks(so all nozzles are vissible). btw our pressure vessels are always vertical. I dont want to make for every pressure vessel an extra assembly with all nozzles on the side. are there any other solutions?
thanks in advance
Gr Arthur Geelen
@AG wrote:hello,
we are starting doing pressure vessels in Inventor. only my boss wants to have a top view with all nozzle angles and a "front view" were all nozzles are on the side of the tank so you can you can dimension the height and length from the centerline of the tanks(so all nozzles are vissible). btw our pressure vessels are always vertical. I dont want to make for every pressure vessel an extra assembly with all nozzles on the side. are there any other solutions?
thanks in advance
Gr Arthur Geelen
I would use a position representation.
Get all the nozzles into place correctly but ensure you use an angle constraint on the ones you want to move around.
Pick the side with a view of the most nozzles, create a postional representation and move the hidden nozzles into view overriding your angle constraint.
No extra parts and a click of a mouse button in your IDW file
thank you very much.
i made a representation for a nozzle and now my holes in the shell will not change with the nozzle. if I change the nozzle by hand (change the angle constrain) the hole in the shell will change with the nozzle. how can i make the hole change with the nozzle by representation change?
hole is made according a copy object surface (associative is on) and that sculpt away.
thanks in advance
Gr Arthur Geelen
@AG wrote:thank you very much.
i made a representation for a nozzle and now my holes in the shell will not change with the nozzle. if I change the nozzle by hand (change the angle constrain) the hole in the shell will change with the nozzle. how can i make the hole change with the nozzle by representation change?
hole is made according a copy object surface (associative is on) and that sculpt away.
thanks in advance
Gr Arthur Geelen
I figured that would happen if you used your nozzles to create adaptive holes in your shell.
A positional representation is just that, moving positions around, becaue it will not upate or save in that postion means it will not update your holes.
I have to ask why you would need the hole to move around? You are merely doing this to get a drawing view that shows the relative height of the nozzles in your vessel. It is a "False View" and as such does not need the holes to update.
Create your positional rep, put it on your IDW sheet, turn hidden lines off and dimension the heights of nozzles as required. Make very very clear that it is a "False View" to avoid confusion in manufacturing.
We are making towers now that use false views to show the location of components and it creates more confusion then anything else. Showing hidden lines and using them is better for all concerned