Autodesk Inventor Help

[informalmyx]

figured this might go here(delete it if i am wrong, Xwingband) does anyone have any of the MHS parts designs. i got this program for free when a friend upgraded to a newer version for school. and i have no idea how to use it but he is gonna teach me so i can plan and design my saber

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[xwingband]

I can't think of a much better place to put it... here's fine.

I am not familiar with Inventor that well. It is a CAD derivative but Iit works quite different. Meiv4 could help since that's what he uses.

As for getting an accurate mock up of the MHS... unless you have one and calipers you're not going to get the dimensions exactly. Tim can't really give those out.

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[informalmyx]

figured hum meiv4 you around?

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[meiv4]

yea. guess i should do some sort of inventor tutorialish thing then eh?

all my parts dont have the threaded bits on them.

Get me on aim if you need some help.

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[meiv4]

HAHAHA double post, kinda.

Any way here is a tutorial on making an end cap. Well it could also be a blade holder so yay. 2 things at once!

http://www.boredomabounds.com/inventortut.htm

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[informalmyx]

sweet

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[meiv4]

updated! same link as before. so haha.

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[informalmyx]

cool think we could do screws next or how to shape a tube like cuting it at a angle

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[luis rojas]

Hi, I use inventor at work and for saber building to ..ha ha ha. It's very diferent from AutoCad but you can do almost anything (3D modeling,assemblies, animations, blueprints,etc) If you want to begin with Inventor you should search for tutorials fist. Please e-mail me if you have any question. I'll be glad to help you. Bye

[DJMoonbass]

AUTODESK
Is awsome!!!!!!!! to make basic designs go first to standard part when opening up new. you should get a blank blue screen and to your left you should have a window with multiple drawing options. I just used circles for my lightsaber. draw a circle then dimension it. (you can just hit ctrl D) than after your done with the first circle. right click, finish sketch and you should get a different window ion your left. click extrude and then highlight your circle by clicking on it. then there several option on extrusion along with how long to do it. then when you are done and want to build up. along the top there is small icons. one of them is sketch so you select that and then highlight the face of the part you want to sketch on. and you keep repeating the processes. This is a huge program. i havent even begun to tap its processing power its huge. The best thing is do the tutorials and play around for ten years. then you should know it pretty well.

[chaos]

Dude, this thread is almost three years old, why revive it?

[Jedi-Loreen]

Because he's a noob. :rolleyes: