Advanced Sheet Metal Design with Autodesk Inventor 2010

[nagu282]

good one .........it's very helpful.....

[ramzikarimas]

I think you can work blind with inventor!

Awesome work and cool competent guy!

[anderssonbeccari]

Really nice to watch, but doesn't work at all

[anderssonbeccari]

Didn't work for me. I did exactually the same.

[MillyVanillification]

Very informative. Thanks.

[iannuhn]

great video, i have been working with advanced sheet metal techniques for a while now and am wondering if you have ever come across trying to make a sheet metal loft using a 3d sketch instead of the standard 2d sketchs, i have tried but with no success, maybe i am missing something. thanks!

[robcohee]

@iannuhn post an example to my Facebook page if you could. Search for Rob Unscripted in Facebook and post something to the wall. Thanks - Rob.

[Anton338]

All I need to know is how to make a simple fold. hahaha

Sweet video tho, I loved it xD

[maggist33r]

This is great, thank you! quite entertaining.

[PatrickMercader]

Can you unfold the sheet metal in the drawing views? Because when I try the unfold option is unclickable, I might be doing something wrong. :-/

[PatrickMercader]

@PatrickMercader I guess what im trying to say is flatten.

[PatrickMercader]

@PatrickMercader You know what Im an idiot for asking without trying.. I got it! Thanks for all your videos. Amusing!

[fiishywiishy]

the rip isnt catching the sketch point, doesnt work

[shepherdsville]

great lesson !

[redalf]

how do you "video around" your view around the work space??? F4 key?

[robcohee]

@redalf That's one way to do it, but I use a 3D mouse from 3DConnexion too.

[redalf]

how do you "video around" your view around the work space??? F4 key?

[33rdPatriot]

thank you for doing this

[Sundowner111]

This is something I can't do in SolidWorks, can't roll something that was already bend. I can only unfold something I could do out of paper (no stretching of material). It was very frustrating, as I tried to design an airplane part that was made purely from sheet metal and rivets. Had to fake everything - make parts as solids, and calculate the unfold shape "manually".

Wonder how Inventor would cope with that.

[matanesxxx]

ERROR MUST INVESTIGATE A LITTLE BECAUSE IF SO SOLID ...!!! And much BETTER

[TOASTuh]

the introduction was hilarious :D by the way, why is there gaps in between the corners of the sheet metal at 3:51 ?

[kandaya1]

i ordered the trial ima start young :D

[teamCJ19137]

yea i started young been using autocad since i can remember my dad would just sit me down infront of the computer and i would just draw and now i am really thanking him for doing that cause right now i am a jounir in high school working to get an internship at nasa! lol so go for it

[kandaya1]

@teamCJ19137 ya ima start photo editing first :P im getting pretty good

[jdavis417]

Rob, what constraints would you recommend (if any) between the hood and the exhaust pipe? If you turn this example down-side up, it closely resembles a material bin I've chosen as a practice project.

[robcohee]

You could use mates on the faces or points, or sometimes I like to use work planes, or place a UCS on both parts giving you three planes on each part that you can use as reference planes. Sometimes work features are great ways of positioning components relative to each other in an assembly when geometry alone doesn't work.

[jdavis417]

Thanks so much for taking the time to reply! I've chosen a "base sketch" approach &, even after grounding the "transition", "straight" & "lip", my model continues to update properly.

As a side note, I've noticed that when I chose to create the "transition" as a die-formed part, the physical properties reported no mass. Though I'm unsure of the manufacturing technique used, the concept is from a portable bin used in the pharaceutical industry. The photos seem to show very smooth corners.

[nogriv]

is Solidworks better for working with sheet metal? pros & cons?

[robcohee]

So I'm going to be Frank.., maybe Tom - either way this question is subject to so much more than what is better. You have to look at the overall objectives of the user - pure 3D modeling? There were talking Chevy and Ford. Complete package that includes analysis, unrolling, true deformations on bends, the best 2D documentation tools, native DWG, essentially taking you beyond a 3D model into a Digital Prototype? My 2 cents: Inventor based Digital Prototypes are superior to 3D models.

[CadRelations]

GREAT STUFF

[Kinglevel]

GREAT tutorial..! Keep em commin! im waiting...

[jdavis417]

FREEBIRD... Ad infinum, ad nauseam, add me to your list of Inventor users who are in debt to you. I'll buy you a beer at Autodesk University this year... oh wait, the beer is free!