I have a pneumatic twist clamp that i'm wanting to make my own version of so i can control my vertical clamp stroke length as well as my 90 degree rotational distance. I want to cut a 3/16" diameter radial slot through the center of a 1/2"diameter pin.. the first 3/8" of the path is a straight slot through the part. The next 1/2" of slot length is rotating so that when it makes it to the end of the 1/2" length.. it is now 90degrees from where it started. In the machining world it would be machined like this.. plunge a 3/16" diameter endmill through the center of the shaft.. now move the shaft length wise while rotating it so that the shaft has turned 90 degrees from the start by the time it moves a 1/2" in length. I can't figure out how to cut this correctly in Inventor. My initial thoughts were to just use the coil command like i was designing a spring.. but i'm having no luck with this. So i have switched to trying to draw the path and sweeping through it but the sweeps don't rotate correctly. I'm using 2023 which is also frustrating because for some reason my sweeps no longer give me a preview. In previous versions.. no preview meant it wasn't going to work.. now you get no preview no matter if it will or won't work. If there is a toggle now for the preview i haven't seen it. This shouldn't be this hard to do. Can someone help with some ideas on how to proceed?
that does it.. the issue seems to be that i put my 3d sketch directly on the diameter of my part. You offset your sketch off the diameter of the part. Inventor seems to like that a lot more. The pin directly in the part making the cut is exactly what i needed.
