Help creating roll up door and animation

[jaypope]

Hi,

I am trying to make a roll up door for my project but don't know where to start.  I would need to still make the door model and with my end goal being a simple animation of the door rolling up, is there a tutorial someone could direct me to? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Jay

[Mark.Lancaster]

@jaypope

Can you provide an example of what this roll-up door would look like..  Have you made any attempts?  Inventor version..

[jaypope]

Inventor version 2018, door size would be 14ft x 14ft, I didn't know where to begin with something that would "roll up" so currently all I had was single 14ft X14ft panel part.  Ideally I would like it to travel straight up and curve into the building like a garage door.

[WHolzwarth]

Have a look at this. Does it match your opinion?

https://grabcad.com/library/overhead-roll-up-door

[jaypope]

That's pretty much what I was trying to make, more detailed that what I was planning lol, is there a way to animate that file to make the door roll up?

Thanks,

Jay

[TheCADWhisperer]

Once you have modeled the assembly and attached it here - I can show you how to animate it.

[jaypope]

I have attached my zipfolder of the door I would like to animate, let me know what else you might need

[TheCADWhisperer]

My next question has nothing to do with the actual animation -

but did you create these parts or did you download from a 3rd party source?

[Curtis_W]

Hi @jaypope,

Here are some related links:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/garage-overhead-door-nightmare/m-p/2864332/thread-id/3...

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/constraining-a-wheel-in-a-curved-track/m-p/5451795#M53...

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/animating-a-part-trough-a-curved-rail/m-p/5078680#M511...

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[jaypope]

3rd party source, and modified in inventor to accommodate dimensions that I required.

[jaypope]

@Curtis_W  Thanks for the links, I will review tonight!

[jaypope]

@TheCADWhisperer Did you have any luck with getting this to animate?

[TheCADWhisperer]

I didn't spend any more time on it since the parts were not "pure".

[jaypope]

@TheCADWhisperer I agree, so I ended up remaking all the parts myself, would you be able to take another look, I have uploaded my new door frame.

[TheCADWhisperer]

Is there a track system in your latest upload?

A winder?