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Need help/Suggestion on how to create this part.

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 05:17:15 GMT

I am trying to reverse engineer a Plastic part to be made out of clear Plexi. It's quite a complex part that has 7 different faces (Top, Front, Bottom, Back, Left, Right, and Inside) and I am completely lost/perplexed. I tried to post additional images to show the item i am trying to create, unfortunately my small image files are not being uploaded. Thanks in advance.

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From left to right: left, front, right, Bottom, Top, Back

How do I create this part?

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 05:26:38 GMT

I am trying to create a part from reverse engineering something I want to create in Plexi. The problem I am running into is that my part has complex designs on all 6 faces as well as custom depths on the inside. I will attach a screenshot of my sketch.

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Re: How do I create this part?

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 05:57:19 GMT

I'm not sure I understand the question?

What do you struggle with?

Re: How do I create this part?

j.palmeL29YX — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 06:42:09 GMT

This views don't describe a part clearly.

Re: Need help/Suggestion on how to create this part.

tyas.swinnen — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:58:52 GMT

Unless yo upost more pictures and some extra explanation I can only suggest you first make a solid body with the outer dimensions of the part.

Then you can, for example, start to subtract all unwanted areas.

Re: Need help/Suggestion on how to create this part.

JDMather — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 11:32:10 GMT

What version of Inventor are you using?

Attach the *.ipt file of your attempt here.

Re: Need help/Suggestion on how to create this part.

JDMather — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 12:59:54 GMT

Where are your sketch dimensions?

Is this correct (these lines not colinear)?

Is this a school assignment?

Re: How do I create this part?

johnsonshiue — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 22:59:06 GMT

Hi! If I understood your request correctly, I don't think you can simply rely on the 2D sketches and magically create the 3D part. You need to understand the dimensions and the shape in order to apply the appropriate features.

One tip I can offer is to leverage Sketch Block. In this case, you would like to place the sketch geometry on different planes. You can either copy and paste the geometry to a different plane. Or, create sketch blocks from the geometry (right-click on the Sketch ribbon panel -> Show Panel -> check Layout). After that, the sketch blocks can be inserted to any 2D sketch.

Many thanks!

Re: How do I create this part?

JDMather — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 23:04:48 GMT

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/need-help-suggestion-on-how-to-create-this-part/m-p/10049687

Re: Need help/Suggestion on how to create this part.

JDMather — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 12:32:53 GMT

@Anonymous

Where did you go?

Re: Need help/Suggestion on how to create this part.

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:46:18 GMT

My apologies about the images (or lack thereof). My Internet connection ATM totally sucks. I was lucky to get the one on the post.

ANYWAY, I am totally open to the idea of booleaning the object out. I have been struggling with this one object for about a week and a half now. I will definitely give this a go since my last idea was to create the different sides and create a sub-assembly (which I still do not know how to do).

Thanks again!

Re: Need help/Suggestion on how to create this part.

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:52:29 GMT

Nope, not a school assignment, and yes, the original part has those edges that close. I took out the dimension lines because they were getting in the way. I was going to re-add them when my part detail was finished. Also, unfortunately, I think two of my sides may have been inverted.

Thanks,

John

Re: How do I create this part?

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:56:47 GMT

My apologies for the confusion...

Let me try to explain.

I am trying to reverse engineer a part that was created in ABS (black) plastic to be created in clear plexi to match my case and hopefully be able to market it when I am done. Also, I am SOO new to Inventor, that I'm not exactly sure how to do some things (like A LOT), so please be patient with my lack of knowledge of the product.

Thanks,

John

Re: How do I create this part?

JDMather — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 18:03:42 GMT

Attach the file(s) of your progress.

What version of Inventor are you using?

Re: How do I create this part?

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 00:30:07 GMT

I would add tags IF I knew what tags to add.... Maybe Autodesk should add and populate a list that shows some?

Re: How do I create this part?

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 00:35:08 GMT

Many thanks and encouragement as well as the help....

When it becomes to a point where I don't know what to do next or have completely given up, I will upload my part file.

Re: How do I create this part?

TheCADWhisperer — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 03:32:57 GMT

Deleting dimensions is a mistake. (You can hide them if they obscure your work.)

Sketches should be on correct planes.

Sketches should be fully defined.