Hello. I am not an engineer, but I am trying to make an Inventor scene for my boss, representing a machine he's designed. The modeling is pretty much done, but the animation is what perplexes me. It looks like a giant crossbow, and resembles one when it's doing its thing. I know about animated constraints, am familiar with dynamic sims, but this one is over my head. In your opinion, should I just animate each piece manually (say, via animated constraints)? Or, should I try to learn dynamic contraints within Inventor? Would I require a math / engineer degree in order to accomplish this?
Hi, this sounds very interesting. I'm not very familiar with dynamic simulations. One suggestion is to employ your first approach and use the timeline in Inventor Studio to represent the consecutive steps.
Hello. I am not an engineer, but I am trying to make an Inventor scene for my boss, representing a machine he's designed. The modeling is pretty much done, but the animation is what perplexes me.
It looks like a giant crossbow, and resembles one when it's doing its thing. I know about animated constraints, am familiar with dynamic sims, but this one is over my head.
In your opinion, should I just animate each piece manually (say, via animated constraints)? Or, should I try to learn dynamic contraints within Inventor? Would I require a math / engineer degree in order to accomplish this?
Hi, this sounds very interesting. I'm not very familiar with dynamic simulations. One suggestion is to employ your first approach and use the timeline in Inventor Studio to represent the consecutive steps.
@@cademist Yeah... this is what I am starting with.
Thanks.
How will it get locked at certain heights?
I believe you can do so in Inventor Studio (to be found in tab "Environments"), but I have not tried.
Yes, just for modelling purpose we can do. But in reality to manufacture such thing you need certain mechanisms to lock it in place.
can i get the technical drawing
I haven't got one, but might make a tutorial on making one with this example.
Can i get the design link for fusion 360
I got a video on that design.