what would be the procedure for creating a loft around a coiled path? is there a way to make the coil command create a path.
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Coil line as surface body to generate the Path.
Create profile(s) to Loft or Sweep.
Attach your file here if you can't figure it out.
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Im not sure how to upload the file but I hope
this helps. The goal is a simple style turbo compressor housing just for
personal learning of new techniques. I need it to loft from the big circle to
the small one in a coiled path
I read you mind and attached the solution to my original post - simply edit the dimensions and you are done.
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thanks for the help, just one thing tho, id really like to know what steps u took to get it. in case i want to do it again in the future. im a new to alot of the non basic features. i have a txt book but it just teches basics
@StrangersDMAX wrote:
.. id really like to know what steps u took to get it. in case i want to do it again in the future. ....
Well then you are really in luck with Inventor - because it recorded everything I did in the order in which I did it.
Drag the red End of Part marker to just below Coil 1.
Right click on the Coil1 feature and select Visible.
Click on the plus symbol(+) and expand the feature.
Right click on the Sketch1 and examine.
Finish sketch, pull down the EOP to the next step and repeat....
http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/SkillsUSA%20University.pdf
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ok i figured it out thanks very much!
how would u got about making a base for it? i made i hollow with shell but if i just extrude a circle up to it it goes inside of it. is there a way to extrude up to it and everywhere they touch it cuts and leaves the rest? that way it doesnt go inside of it.
There are three options in Extrude, Join, Cut and Intersect.
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i need to cut where they intersect, but when i put it in it keeps where they intersect.
Attach your file here - I can't work from words.
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I recommend putting this one aside for a couple of days and take the time to go through these
http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/SkillsUSA%20University.pdf
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com/p/inventor-tutorials.html
http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/enu?adskContextId=HELP_TUTORIALS&language=ENU&release=2014&product=Inve...
also Rob Cohee YouTube Inventor
and older AU at http://www.augi.com
There are also several former examples here very much like yours, but I have no idea what terms to search to find the previous threads.
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