Anthropometric Manikins Available

[Mike_Fox]

iMan and iMandy are updated versions of iMike, originally created by Michael Ficarra. I updated the embedded spreadsheet to create accurately sized anthropometric manikins. Dimensions are based on 1988 data from DOD-HDBK-743A.  iMan and iMandy include the 1st, 5th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th, 95th and 99th percentile dimensions.  Inventor 2010 or later required.

I've attached a picture of iMan, iMandy and the original iMike for comparison.  I wanted to attach the iManikins file here, but it exceeds the forum's size limit.  Use the link below to download from my website:

http://www.apollocanard.com/index_htm_files/iManikins.zip

PS: My website includes screenshots of a small aircraft developed with MDT and Inventor. Check out the Photo (CAD) Gallery.

- Mike

www.apollocanard.com

[francis.verbeeck]

Imandy and its male counterparts are crude and un manibly nonsens there are good manekins cadhumans.com for solid works.

Unfortunately not for inventor! Shame on you Autodesk.

you can buy them but then you have to reaasemble them from scratch at that price it is not a bargain.

Coud anny boddy just take care of that?

Francis Verbeeck

[Mike_Fox]

Well instead of complaining, why don't YOU "take care of that"?

[francis.verbeeck]

This was also mu idea.

But staring with an existing is not legal.

It is an awful lot of work and you not allow to sell it afterwards.

Cadhumans did it for solid works I am not gone by it for 349$ and spending
a lot of work in it and not be able to regain a little of my effort.

Even if I do this a am not able to give u the files for the use in your
drawings because the license is limited for two stations.

The right thing to do is that cad Human make there model functional for
Inventor. Hence my complaining.

Re-inventing the wheel is not a good idea.



Francis

[JDMather]

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@francis.verbeeck wrote:
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Cadhumans did it for solid works ...
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The right thing to do is that cad Human make there model functional for
Inventor. Hence my complaining.

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This is not the "CADHumans website".  Do you have a url link to this company?

You are complaining to the wrong people.  This is a peer-to-peer user forum.  Users just like you!

If you did the models from scratch - what would prevent you from selling them?

[Mike_Fox]

Francis, As you stated, it would be a lot of work to develop an anthropometric module for Inventor. Ideally, Autodesk would do this and market it as part of an "ergonomics" package, much like Dassault does for Catia. But there's only a limited number of customers that would be willing to pay for that. It would be great if a third party like Cadhumans would expand their support to Inventor. I assume Cadhumans has decided there is no "business case" for doing so. And it would not be inexpensive even if they did. Complaining about free models that Inventor users make to support other users, while offering no solution of your own, seems rather ungracious. Maybe, just maybe, if enough Inventor users sent requests to Cadhuman to support our software, they might consider it. But I suspect there just isn't enough demand to justify the development expense.

[francis.verbeeck]

I would like too help others but starting from a model from cadhumans inplicate legal problems.

Francis

Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad

[JDMather]

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@francis.verbeeck wrote:
....starting from a model from cadhumans inplicate legal problems.

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Then start from scratch.

[francis.verbeeck]

I have some time to spend.

and i bought a model from cad humans.

It did not work . but wit the help of the peaple of cad humans i am working on that model to adapt it for INVENTOR .

It is verry difficult.

The peaple of cad hummans dont know INVENTOR so the only one who can help actuali is poor me.

i keep you posted for the progres i make.

take care

[francis.verbeeck]

Hello my dear fellows.

Here is the thing .

I am investigating the possibility of improving an anthropomorphic model for inventor.

ONE BIG PROBLEM is that the limbs of the model go all over the place!

And positioning is a pain in the proverbial. The model can take positions that even a trained contortionist wouldn’t even imagine.

First of all we have limit the position of for example the upper arm in different planes and different angles apparently inventor isn’t capable of that.

I will include a test example off the problem and you can try for yourself.

Initially there is only a mate constraint adding an angle constraint will limit it a bit.

BUT FIDELING ABOUT WITH A HUGE AMOUNT OF CONSTRAINTS IS FAR FROM USER FRIENDLY!

And besides that I have to limit certain movements so the model would act as I human.

Well Mike Fox and Mr JDMather I took the challenge. Now do you in all your wisdom know how to solve this problem?

[JDMather]

I don't install extraneous software on my machine - I don't have an *rar extractor.

[francis.verbeeck]

i will send the 3 individual files two part files and one assembly

Francis

[anthonyzepeda1969]

Is there an updated human model| Seems this link is 10 years old. lol 

Thanks. 

[Frederick_Law]

iMike still working for me

[anthonyzepeda1969]

I found it!

Thanks.

The zip link wasn't working. I went to the actual website.