Hello!
I'm fairly new to Inventor and mechanical design.
Right now I have a machine that I'm designing in Inventor.
It has a tension spring that is (0.6x5x600) around 600mm long, 5mm diameter. And the string is 0.6.
You can see it on the picture. (The one on the picture is 300mm long only).
Am I able to make this one in Inventor just like is is in reality or will i just have to make a normal round sweap? Or can I use texture or what is your advice?
Its nothing death serious but it could be good to know for me.
Thanks
//p
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I guess, you could use the coil command for the main body and create a couple of sweeps for the hooks on each end.
"The Spring Design Accelerator will not design this???"
I'm not that familiar to the SDA but I will look it up. Maybe it will work.
@Blair wrote:I guess, you could use the coil command for the main body and create a couple of sweeps for the hooks on each end.
Something like that could work yes.
But what i FAILED to say was that I want it to be a circle. Like it shows on this picture that I'm attaching now. (The highlighted circle)
Sorry for late respond and missing out that information.
Thanks for now 🙂
If you were on IV2015, new features were added that would help you. With your post showing IV2012 you are out of luck creating the spring using the coil with sweep command. I also suspect that this complex part would really slow your model down.
@Blair wrote:If you were on IV2015, new features were added that would help you. With your post showing IV2012 you are out of luck creating the spring using the coil with sweep command. I also suspect that this complex part would really slow your model down.
Ah alright, that sounded sweet with the IV15, to bad with the other part. Thank you.
I tried a couple weeks ago to make it with a command that bends your part (Bend command I belive?". >but as you said, it did slow my model down very very much.
So wanted to know if there was a chance of doing it without it slowing down. But guess I'll go with just a normal circle. And wish we can upgrade to 2015 🙂
How does it work with Textures btw? Can you download new ones and add to Inventor?
Thank you again Sir!
Yes, you can download textures/bit-maps. ADSK made a change to Materials and Colors in IV2013, hence it's been a couple of years since i've looked at IV2012. I would probably just use the "Thread" texture replicate the surface of the coiled spring.
I would make a COPY of the thread color style called "SPRING".
This way if you can tweak the style without disturbing other parts which may use that style (especially when you migrate to a later version of the software in the future).
Adjust the SCALE and ROTATION to give you the desired effect.
@Blair wrote:Yes, you can download textures/bit-maps. ADSK made a change to Materials and Colors in IV2013, hence it's been a couple of years since i've looked at IV2012. I would probably just use the "Thread" texture replicate the surface of the coiled spring.
Cool! Thank you very much 🙂
@mpatchus wrote:I would make a COPY of the thread color style called "SPRING".
This way if you can tweak the style without disturbing other parts which may use that style (especially when you migrate to a later version of the software in the future).
Adjust the SCALE and ROTATION to give you the desired effect.
Hi mpatchus!
That looked very nice! I belive I will try this.
Thank you for the suggestion!
Kind regards
Calle