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Inventor Reverse Engineer Complex Shape Bolted Metal Part From Images

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 17:53:52 GMT

what would be the easiest way to make this shape?

kelly.young has edited your subject line for clarity: complex shape

Re: Inventor Reverse Engineer Complex Shape Bolted Metal Part From Images

TheCADWhisperer — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 17:54:10 GMT

Can you Attach your attempt here?

Re: Inventor Reverse Engineer Complex Shape Bolted Metal Part From Images

SBix26 — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 17:54:23 GMT

Write your message again, and this time include enough information for anyone to take an intelligent stab at your question!

Since this is the Inventor forum, I'm assuming that you are wondering about making this shape using Inventor, but no idea what your end product is supposed to be.

You included an image—that's all. Well, Inventor does some things very well, but making images is not its primary purpose, and you already have one of those, so I suppose you're wanting to create something other than an image.

Imagine yourself as someone reading this for the first time; then see if you can communicate effectively to such a person (who also might not be a native English speaker).

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Re: Inventor Reverse Engineer Complex Shape Bolted Metal Part From Images

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 17:54:36 GMT

As you can see in the attached image. I have 2 image references of the shape i am trying to build. And at the bottom is the current state my shape is at. My question is, how do I go about creating all the curvatures that blend nicely with that shape and also add the insets...basically all the detail that the real object has.

Re: Inventor Reverse Engineer Complex Shape Bolted Metal Part From Images

Xun.Zhang — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 17:54:49 GMT

Hello @Anonymous,

This would be a long thread if talking step by step. It sounds like a kind of reverse engineering based on images.

Please create sketch and insert images to help draw the shape and leverage command to do material subtraction, it's easy to say but a long learning curve for you.

By the way, it does not look complex to me.

Hope it helps!

Re: Inventor Reverse Engineer Complex Shape Bolted Metal Part From Images

TheCADWhisperer — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 17:55:02 GMT

Can you Attach your attempt here? (Your attempt will have the file extension *.ipt) This is a yes/no question.

Re: Inventor Reverse Engineer Complex Shape Bolted Metal Part From Images

TheCADWhisperer — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 17:55:13 GMT

@Anonymous

Making any progress in this design?

Re: Inventor Reverse Engineer Complex Shape Bolted Metal Part From Images

kelly.young — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 17:55:25 GMT

Hello @Anonymous I see that you are visiting as a new member to the Inventor Forum.
Welcome to the Autodesk Community!

It looks like you have the basic outer profile created which is a good start, now you have to work on removing material and defining your indentations. There are many ways to do this, based on your image using angled planes, extrusions, possibly emboss or loft cuts might get you closer.

If you want to attach what you have accomplished so far so forum experts can comment on further that would be helpful.

Please select the Accept as Solution button if a post solves your issue or answers your question.

Re: Inventor Reverse Engineer Complex Shape Bolted Metal Part From Images

Frederick_Law — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 20:42:25 GMT

Get all the important features on the part first. Then you can decide if you need all the undercuts and weight reduction. Some of those features are there for casting. If you are milling the part, you don't need them. You can look into weight reduction after you have model of a working part.