Extrude Question

[Anonymous]

Hello All,

I'm trying to extrude the 3/4 coil through the top of the cylinder so essentially the 3/4 coil could be dropped into the cylinder and be used as a gage of sorts that will test ID/OD and also the pitch.  I've searched and searched to no avail.  Attached is a file.  I need to take the coil and extrude the profile of the coil in the x axis. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

[Cadmanto]

Welcome to the forum.

What version are you using.  I have 2013 so I want to make sure I can load your file.

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[Anonymous]

Hello and thanks for responding. 

I'm using inventor 2015. 

[blair]

What are you trying to do with this IPT, you have combined the Coil.IPT in with this Base.IPT

[Anonymous]

From a practical standpoint, I want to take the Coil.ipt and do the equivalent of pushing it into clay with the clay being the Base.ipt.  I feel like this should be very simple, but I am obviously missing something. 

I'm using dummy files for this example, but what I have is a wireform that is 3 dimensional and I want to make a gage that I can drop the wireform into that checks the dimensions from the top view, and also side view. 

For this example, I created a 3/4 coil spring which does a good job of creating the difficulties of the 3d wireform, which I cannot share.  The wireform CAD is customer supplied. 

[blair]

Possibly look at the "Sculpt" Feature within the Inventor Help, or create an Adaptive Part within the IAM file projecting the required geometry.

[JDMather]

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@Anonymous wrote:

... the equivalent of pushing it into clay .... 

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Is something like this what you are trying to do?

[Anonymous]

I believe so.  Does that still maintain the pitch in the X axis? 

[Anonymous]

Can you send the file so I can see it? 

[JDMather]

I am having trouble with my internet connection - I will attach a couple of possible solutions when I get a chance.

[Anonymous]

Thanks JDMather, I'm losing my hair on this one. 

[Cadmanto]

It almost sounds as though a skeleton assembly might be in order for what you are doing.  Or creating a cavity mold type arrangement.

I was thinking that inserting a part into a part might work, but I don't think it would based on what has been described here.

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