Lifting Lug Placement on a Cone

[Atlas_Inventor]

Hi!

Is there a way in Inventor (or any other Autodesk Design Suite program) to find the point on a cone (attached jpg) where the lifting lug should go so that when lifted, the cone stays in the same orientation as in the attached picture.

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

You could try turning on the center of gravity and attaching the lug so the hole is in line with it.

[mpatchus]

I made a real simple cone, applied the appropriate material, then used the "X" value of the COG to located the lug.

Unfortunately I don't think there is a way to automatically pull the COG value directly into the dimension.

I've attached the part.

[Atlas_Inventor]

John,

The CoG ends up being on the inside of the Cone so simply going straight up to the edge of the cone would change the balance point should it not?

[mpatchus]

I constructed the model with the origin being centered on the centerline of the cone, and dimensioned the lug to the origin using the COG X value.

As long as the lug is directly over the COG, the part should always be balanced, since the lug itself is included in the COG calculations.