Plastic part features

[Paul.Normand]

Greetings! Did you know that Inventor contains a rich set of plastic part design tools? Because the panel is turned off by default, many people are not aware of their existence. With the release of the guided tutorial - Create Plastic Part Features 1 of 2, I hope to change that.

I'll be releasing the 2nd part of this tutorial sometime after new years. In the meantime, you can check out how to use the Grill, Lip, and Rule Fillet commands in the first tutorial. 

Even if you don't create plastic parts, there is a killer Fillet command hidden in the plastic part command panel; Rule Fillet. This command is not limited to plastic parts and lets you use pre-defined rules to create hundreds of fillets without selecting edges. It's Task 3 in the tutorial and the task video is attached below if you want to check it out.

Please send feedback or comments to: Guided.Tutorials.Feedback@autodesk.com. We look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks!

Paul

[KakaSungura]

Chapter 19 of Curtis Waguespack's Mastering Autodesk Inventor series introduced me to the plastics features. I set my preferences to all tabs turned on by default since then.

[Anonymous]

Great tutorial Paul,

I will be playing around w/ this feature. 

Thank you.

Haziq

[Paul.Normand]

I released Plastic Features 2 of 2 today. This tutorial finishes the design started in Plastic Features 1 of 2.

In the new tutorial you create Snap Fit clips, mating Bosses with ribs, and use Derive and Combine to cut the part with a toolbody. Feedback is welcome!

Thanks,

Paul

[Anonymous]

A living hinge is an area of a  plastic part which has a small cross-sectional area to allow for greater flexibility. For very ductile materials, like Polypropylene, the part won’t break with constant bending back and forth, so this is an easy way to make a hinge in the part.

[Anonymous]

Sorry but I cant find the video.

Where is the video?

[S_May]

getting-started

[Anonymous]

Thanks May,

didn't know I could learn a lot from the knowledge.inventor tutorials.

[Paul.Normand]

@ S_May, Thanks for pointing out the legacy tutorials. These tutorials are the text, data download, no video 'old style' tutorials and have not been updated since R2014. There is still some good learning material that has not been converted to guided tutorials here, but if you have 2018 (or 2017) a lot of the legacy content has been converted to guided tutorials and is available in-product in the gallery.

The plastic tutorial I mention here was converted from this old one. The best experience is provided with the new guided tutorial step-by-step guide + video if you have access to 2018.

There are also some slight differences in the workflow between the old tutorial and the new one. (Direct Edit is used to move bodies for example.)

If anyone knows of a legacy tutorial that would be valuable in the new format, or has any ideas about a new one we should create (iLogic or HSM for example?), please let us know.

Thanks,

-Paul

[S_May]

Hallo @Paul.Normand,

Please make a video (tutorial) with freeform and the functions.
In the German forum often come to ask.

[Paul.Normand]

Hi S-May,  All Autodesk authored tutorials created in English are translated into 12 additional languages. There are 2 Freeform tutorials available in German.Have you tried these?

In the gallery, change the language filter to German to view the tutorials that are available.

[Anonymous]

do you gota youtuube channel for your tutorial . i'd deifnetly subscribe you