I am designing a robot that combines lego gears/axles with many non-lego parts, and I would like to have everything drawn up in CAD before building it. I have spent my last hour searching google for pre-existing Lego parts compatible with inventor, but my search was not very fruitful. Does anyone know if these parts exist?
Thanks!
If you can't find the parts, why don't you try using iparts to generate the lego bricks. If you make it so that your table can control the length of the bricks, the width of the bricks, the number of buttons along the length, the number of buttons along the width and the colour, you will be able to generate new variations very quickly. You should be able to hollow out the bricks and remove the bottom face by using the Shell feature.
Wayne
http://grabcad.com/library/tag/lego
Why did I have to see this thread?!?!? Now I'm going to be playing with virual legos all day instead of doing actual work!
At least its Friday and my boss is a Lego FREAK! I should show him these... Ill probably get asked to build something for him with Legos!
Keep em coming Doug! I wouldn't mind trying to build a virtual lego assembly. Maybe a weekend project of some sort.
Thanks guys, just to add to the list:
http://www.3dcontentcentral.com/default.aspx
just search lego. I downloaded all of the lego gears / axles that I needed. Just be careful, the search bar is very precise and doesn't appear to have a "closest results" feature. I entered "lego gears" the first time around, and there were 0 results. I then typed "lego gear," and the gears came up.
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