Recent content by SugarRat

I would thnk that you would have to do a stress analysis on the piping including the force you would need and see what the piping is going to do under that stress. What kind of misalignment are you trying to deal with? Generally its much easier to have a site contractor cut and refeb the pipe...

I agree with the last posts - invest in at least an Inventor Essentials course - its a couple of days intense training but it will save you the world of headaches...

You can show the scale on the individual views which in my eyes are more valid. RMB on the view, Edit View, then click on the little lightbulb icon next to the scale so it lights up. You can do the same with the label and change it to something appropriate. This is better because if you have...

IDW's will only update once you have saved the model and sometimes hit the update button. However if your graphics card is not up to scratch I have found that you actually have to close and reopen the IDW as well.

I assume this is something like a tripod? Try contact sets....but I'm not sure that will work. How do you model the strings or cables?

Sorry to burst the bubble here, Inventor does not do transitions - round to square - unfolding when using the sheetmetal function (or any other for that matter). One can unfold round extrusions or lofts providing there is no transition from and angular to a rounded shape. Maybe in 2008...

Just upgrade to AutoCAD Mechanical 2007. If you want realistic 3D threading, it can do it, if you are only looking for 2D representation, it has the most complete library I have seen for a long long time. Even allows you to do bill of material generation, limited stress analysis, keeps track...

Scan the image, insert and trace.....I have tried quite a few conversion softwares, and they basically all fall over in varying degrees. Ciao Kobus

Sounds like what you are doing is similar to sheetmetal development. There are numerous packages that sits on top of Autocad that you can try, the best one I found is Striker. It will do development for you as well as nesting. Hope it helps. Kobus

Oh man I feeel like Noah here, I started on version 3.1 before Neil walked on the moon almost, went from there to 9, 10, 14, 97 then 2000, 2004, 2006 and now 2007. You will love the newer versions I am sure. Have to agree, throw away the digitizer, if you need to work of a hard copy graphic...

Is this something like an extrusion of a profile, i.e. like structural steel?