Attach your assembly here.
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Attach your file here.Find the red End of Part marker in the browser.
(End of Folded on sheet metal parts EOF)
Drag the red EOP to the top of the browser hiding all features.
Save the file with the EOP in a rolled up state.
Right click on the file name and select Send to Compressed (zipped) Folder.
Attach the resulting *.zip file here.
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How are you going to make the connections?
Is this for a 3D printed model?
I would start a new part file.
Manage>Derive Component and select the assembly and option to convert to one part.
Then Fillet>Face Fillet to make the connections.
You have to do this for each desired connection. You must use Face Fillets for this solution.
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thank you so much for the respond.
I'm trying to make an small scale model out of steel pipes, but the engineer at the factory said they need to know exactly where the conncetion points are inorder to make the actual model stand up.
i've got a new file started, but i'm not sure how is face fillet going to help me find out the connecting points.
is it possible to tell me more about the exact settings.
thanks
I thought I was close to a solution, but then when I thought this was going to be a 3D print - the above solution seemed the easiest.
A couple of things I would do -
Part is not fully constrained sketches
I would do as an iPart so that each part in the assembly has a unique name (haven't thought about how I would handle this since the assembly is already created - maybe write out to STEP and then back in?).
If each part had a unique name a "brute force - close enough" technique could be used to zoom in and "eyeball" approximate connection locations, edit the part in context of assembly and and drilled holes or split face or however you want to indicate the connection. I suspect given the process that will be used on the shop floor - this would be close enough.
I didn't check the size of this thing, but I think a scaled 3D print would probably help them on the shop floor as well. The problem with scaling 3D prints though, is that the cross-section could be too thin to print.
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@beeyun707 wrote:
I'm trying to make an small scale model out of steel pipes,.....
I don't understand this statement - in Inventor make it full size 1:1.
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i'm goin to make a real mock-up model out of steel pipes, i need to find out the exact joint points in order to make the mock-up model to stand up on its own with out any external support.
is there a way that i can find an exact connection point? like the snap tool in autocad where it shows me where intersections are.
When I checked - there were no intersections. I only checked a handfull of locations.
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