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Creating 6 point star socket adapter

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 17:49:03 GMT

Hello everyone,

Sorry if there is a duplicate post somewhere, but I searched and couldn't find any, at least that answers my question. I am attempting to model a socket that seems pretty straight forward, but can't seem to get it right. The problem I am having is replicating the radius's on the star portion of the socket to make the extrusion. I have a drawing that should make this very easy for the Inventor experts out there. I will attach my ipt file of what I have so far as well. Any insight on this would be great! Thank you in advance.

Best regards,

Adam

Re: Creating 6 point star socket adapter

JDMather — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 18:27:39 GMT

While you wait for someone to take a look at the geometry - I recommend that you install the Updates for 2019.

I made some changes to your Sketch1.

Re: Creating 6 point star socket adapter

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 18:54:12 GMT

Thank you JDMather. I appreciate the help. Figured this was very simple. Couldn't quite get the sketch to look like that. And the circular pattern is so much more simple and cleaner looking then the mess I had.

Thanks again!

Re: Creating 6 point star socket adapter

JDMather — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 19:53:27 GMT

It is almost always better to keep the sketch simple and then pattern the feature than it is to pattern the sketch elements.