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Creating complex curved shapes?

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vhlavinka
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Creating complex curved shapes?

I am working on creating a 3D model of an electric guitar with a carved top, similar to a Les Paul for anyone who knows guitar shapes. I want to know if Inventor is capable of creating that type of curves used for the top. I have seen models in SolidWorks of complex curved parts, but I don't have much experience with SolidWorks, only Inventor. But the classes I was in never got into complex shapes and designs like that. I was hoping someone could point me towards a video or a tutorial of how to create those types of curves. Or if anyone knows of a 3D model that I can download and see the sketches and features to see how it was done.

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JDMather
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>But the classes I was in never got into complex shapes and designs like that.

You might want to go through these tutorials
http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/content/DSG322/inventor_surface_tutorials.htm

Attached is a screen capture of the projects my students are working on at this minute.

You will see a couple of guitars in there.

Also a nice rubber ducky coming along (the student actually has it much further along - but is going back and cleaning up the techniques for a more robust model). I pointed this one out as someone here is looking for a model of a turkey. Might consider changing to duck.

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JDMather
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Here is a better pic of current work going on in the lab.

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HallStevenson
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> {quote:title=vhlavinka wrote:}{quote}
> I am working on creating a 3D model of an electric guitar with a carved top, similar to a Les Paul for anyone who knows guitar shapes. I want to know if Inventor is capable of creating that type of curves used for the top.

I don't think the top of a Les Paul is what I would call "complex".

> But the classes I was in never got into complex shapes and designs like that.

I took an advanced surfacing class in ProE and one of the lessons involved a violin and manipulating the top of it. Nonetheless, most classes for software only touches the basic stuff.... Create a cube, put a hole in the cube, chamfer the edge. They will touch on sweeps and lofts but not a lot of in-depth.

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