SAEJ926 HOLE (ET AL)

[Jeff_Moss]

Are there already SAE spec hydraulic hole ports in Inventor 2024? I just upgraded from 2022 and don't see 'em yet. Maybe I don't know where to look, but I REALLY don't want to have to set this up as a custom hole/pocket. 

I'm dragging and dropping a hole-pocket spec sheet for all the SAE hydraulic fitting holes. 

This'd be immensely helpful...and I'm told that Brand-X already HAS it...

Jeff

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! I could be wrong but I don't think the specific feature is available in Inventor unfortunately.

Many thanks!

[Frederick_Law · Accepted solution]

Make your own iFeature

[tlebrun]

Fred,

Is there a way to add the ifeature to a diameter?  I have a work plane on the outer diameter of a cylinder, with a sketch, but, no matter what i do, it can't build the feature.

[Frederick_Law]

Yes.

What are you trying to build?

[tlebrun]

sae port

We use SAE ports all the time, and I just discovered today about the custom ifeature.  I tried to use it but it just doesn't want to work with cylinders.  Currently we just create a tapped spotface hole, then add the chamfers.  I can add the ifeature easily to any flat surface but not on a work plane tangent to a cylinder. 

[Frederick_Law]

Might need different iFeature for flat and cylinder.

It'll depends on the first feature.

Depends on cylinder diameter, the flat will need different depth.

[tlebrun]

I could add the spotface, and add the ifeature to it, but that would defeat the purpose of simplifying the task.

Kind-of silly ifeatures don't work on cylinders.  Hopefully the SAE hole be added to a future revision of Inventor.

[Frederick_Law]

It should be doable.

A simple extrude cut iFeature on cylinder.

[Jeff_Moss]

I agree it should be doable...even on cylinders. BUT...my point is: "Autodesk ought to wake up and make this functionality available to us."

I do hydraulic ports as an OCCASIONAL design feature. It makes no sense whatever for me to spend the inordinate amount of time relearning the i-feature process to create such a widely-used feature creation tool. I'm not the only soul who designs machines that OCCASIONALLY have hydraulic subsystems. I have 2.8 engineers here where I work, and we keep ALL our product design work done for a job-shop-organized effort to ship machines from four widely-divergent product-lines worldwide. 

I'll eventually cave and DO it, but I don't WANT to. Seriously, why do I have to do Autodesk's job on MY weekends, evenings and mornings?

[Frederick_Law]

There was no reason to model it.  All was required was a note saying "-8 SAE o-ring port".

Anyway, I tested my SAE port iFeature and it works LOL.

[claudio.ibarra]

I came across this thread looking for a better way to add SAE ports to parts.

Where I work, we have .ide for SAE iFeatures, but there's a glaring problem --- putting it in a welded component. iFeatures don't play in assemblies. So we have to try and put the feature in the part level and take steps to hide it.

Is it a herculean effort to add SAE to the holes.xls file?

[hollypapp65]

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@claudio.ibarra wrote:

Is it a herculean effort to add SAE to the holes.xls file?

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Yes.

ModelState could hide the SAE port.

Or convert assembly into Weldment.

[claudio.ibarra]

Wait, do iFeatures work in Weldment assemblies? I thought they only work in .ipt files, because .iam features are restricted to things that remove material, and iFeatures can theoretically add material.

Why is modifying the holes.xls file a herculean (or sisyphean) effort? Autodesk, make it easy! I came here looking for a way to make a modification so I can have counterbore holes with and without high-collar lockwashers, but it's easier to provide everyone with a PDF cheat-sheet at their desks. That shouldn't be the case in the 21st century! 

[nagihan.bostan]

Hi everyone,
We developed Logic Hydraulic Port Creator — an Autodesk Inventor plugin that automates hydraulic port creation for ISO 1179-1, SAE J1926-1 and ISO 6149-1 standards. It generates the thread, spotface and chamfer geometry automatically on both cylindrical and flat surfaces, directly from the Inventor toolbar.
There's a 2-week free trial on the Autodesk App Store if anyone wants to give it a try:

👉http://logicps.net/download-hpc