create a frame in 2 ways

[Fla105]

Good morning to all, as I wrote in the presentation phase, I just started using inventor 2010 and I am doing it as a self-taught, so I apologize for the low level of my requests, but somewhere I will have to start! :wink:

I should make a frame, whose front is represented by the image I attached, it is 120 x 80 sp. 3 tubes and the question is this: I know that you can insert pipes already made from the contained center, but then I can't assemble them, moreover in the phase in which they are, I would be more interested to create it in 3d "hand", without inserting pre-recorded models, but once I do the sketch in 2d, and after making the extrusion of the 2 horizontal parts, I can't understand how to set the plans to make the oblique parts.

I could do the extrusion of the whole figure considering it full, but then how can I do so that they're all empty pipes?

I know you'll be laughing like crazy, and you do well....but it's the basis of what I'd need inventor for, at least now, so I'd like to understand what to do.

hoping to have an answer, thank you all in advance.


flax

 

[supermonomatteo]

Hello, I am also an inventor self-taught by manuals and tutorials. the 2010 version of inventor should already have the "frame generator" in the assembly environment.
However, you can also extrude the full pipes and then use the "emptying" command.
I apologize if I responded in summary, now I have no inventor underhand and I can't do proof. I promise to do it as soon as possible and post any results.

 

[Esselle]

as you mention there are at least two ways to make a frame like this.
the first via frame generator consists in making, for example, the sketch of the median lines of the tubular as you see them in the photo you posted and assign to each the corresponding tubular from contained center.
the second consists in creating 4 separate parts and then assembling them to realize the frame.
this with great lines, certainly without a basis for the realization of the parts and the assemblies is hard to explain in a forum.
are cmq here if you need other directions.

 

[Sibillo]

wanting to use the classic modeling instead of the generator frames you will have to cuff a little with the plans of work, regarding the generator I used it a few times but slowly and with the help of the guide in line I managed to go ahead is not as terrible as it seems :smile: certainly depends also on the complexity of the design.

 

[Fla105]

first of all thank you very much to all, very kind.

I believe I have solved the problem in question (at least for the aspect of the realization of the piece through extrusion), then I will try.

I haven't tried it yet, more than anything because being at the beginning, I really wanted to try to do something from the basics of the program, a little like when you start using autocad and you only work with lines.

said this, do you have to recommend links or something similar with various exercises, even basic? the guide of the program is not that it is the maximum of life, and I would like something that would explain the first steps in the program, not to go home.

so far I have followed the videos on youtube of the various joy-sticks and cups, however although they are very clear, doing things step by copying them from the video, it is a very simple thing, while I would like to enter the perspective of creating from a sketch on a piece of paper, I do not know if I explained.

to finish, already that there are, the construction lines in what differ from the normal lines? If I want to make half a piece, then mirror it, design and mirror everything on a axis line, but a construction line when it comes to me?

I know these are mariuccia asylum things, but I need them to speed up right away and get better into the program.


thanks again to all for your availability.

 

[Tarkus]

The inventor's chassis generator, apart from a few gaps, can be considered a winning instrument.
I suggest you start cuffing us up and do your frames with the fg (frame generator); Also because by making a frame with extrusions, sweeps etc, you never create a piece conforming to the truth, also with the fg you have various tools such as grade joints (from my parts: four-piece), extension/cut to the adjacent profile etc.
without considering whether when you need to make a design as you must, if the frame is made with the fg, you can create a list of the elements with its lengths.:smile:

 

[Fla105]

perfect, then I will see to start playing :biggrin: