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In The Machine is the official blog of the Inventor Product Management Team. It is a way for us to share Inventor news, interesting information about successful Inventor customers and partners as well as tips and tricks. From time to time we’ll also use the blog to solicit feedback from users via surveys. This blog is hosted by Garin Gardiner our Technical Marketing Manager.
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Designing Shafts
November 9, 2007, 07:46 PM Garin Gardiner
I am guessing that most of you at some point create shafts or cylindrical parts that require complex profiles to revolve or several extrusions to create the shaft. As many of you have probably discovered, when it comes time to create holes on a cylindrical face, it often requires creating several work features such as planes, axis and points to get the location of the holes.
As some of you probably already know, Inventor has a shaft tool that removes many of these steps and allows you to create shaft with various cross sections such as cylinders, cones and polygons. You can also place various features such as holes, chamfers, fillets, reliefs, wrenches, grooves and keyways to name a few.
With just a few section you can create sfafts similar to this very easy and even run calculations on the shaft by adding a few supports and forces.
If you haven't used the shaft generator head on over to the Design Accelerator panel bar and take it for a spin.
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