Buggy/frame building

[johnboy]

I am trying to build a frame in inventor and want some advice on how to do it, can I assembly it with welds or is it better to do it with joints. Any advice would be appreciated

[Opc 12]

The best advice i can give you is to make a skeleton sketch as a part.

Then open a assembly and place that part (name it skeleton sketch so you know what it is).

Then on the assembly panel click the down arrow and select frame generator.
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Then select insert frame member.
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Then select the lines on your sketch, and select your frame type good luck.
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[johnboy]

skeleton sketch?

[JD Mather]

skeleton sketch?

Have you done the Help>Tutorials?

[johnboy]

I have inventor 10 and I can't find a frame generator function. This is what I am trying to build http://www.green-trust.org/junkyardprojects/FreeGoKart&ATVPlans/MountainKart.pdf

It looks easy enough for a start.

[Lazer]

That shoud be an easy model using frame generator
OPC 12 has shown you how to find it!
Saying that, I cannot remember when frame generator was introduced?
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[Mr T]

Saying that, I cannot remember when frame generator was introduced?


After 7 maybe 10> ?

Nick

[johnboy]

After 7 maybe 10> ?

Nick

so I might have it. The only thing I see is a design accelerator

[Lazer]

Looking into it frame generator was launched with Inventor 11 so johnboy your out of luck with that one, but all is not lost, this model can still be done using 3d sketches and sweeping the profile.

[johnboy]

Looking into it frame generator was launched with Inventor 11 so johnboy your out of luck with that one, but all is not lost, this model can still be done using 3d sketches and sweeping the profile.

i have no idea how to use workplanes at angles and this 3d sketch, I am new to this so any help is appreciated

[johnboy]

I managed to get frame generator so can someone please tell me what a skeleton sketch is.

[Lazer]

can someone please tell me what a skeleton sketch is.

This will help you understand
http://www.sdotson.com/freetut/introduction%20to%20skeletal%20modeling.pdf

[johnboy]

I am struggling to create a 45degree angle mate :?

[Lazer]

can you post what you have done so far?

[johnboy]

http://img252.imageshack.us/my.php?image=part1jo2.jpg

I'll tell ya, I can't get my line on the 3d sketch to lie forward at 45 degree and 45 degree to the inside aswell, look at the drawing at the front of the the kart, the way it bends up and inwards

http://www.green-trust.org/junkyardp...untainKart.pdf (http://www.green-trust.org/junkyardprojects/FreeGoKart&ATVPlans/MountainKart.pdf)

[Lazer]

What you need to do is place the xyz coordinates in excel then bring that into inventor using import points, then you can sweep the tube.

[johnboy]

What you need to do is place the xyz coordinates in excel then bring that into inventor using import points, then you can sweep the tube.

Is there any tutorials that demonstrate this. I can't seem to find it in the help files. Can someone just show me with the precision input tool, this is driving me nuts, I don't want to sound stupid, but I can get the bend inwards but not outwards aswell as shown below.

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/325/skeleton1yj1.jpg

[johnboy]

I decided to work on another design and this is what I have done so far.

http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/6121/deserscoutbuggyip4.jpg

Just a few questions, Where can I get some profile tires from plus I have to weld some axle bearing connected from rear axle to the frame, how do I go about that

[Lazer]

Where can I get some profile tires from plus I have to weld some axle bearing connected from rear axle to the frame, how do I go about that

Sign up to this and you can download loads of step files that will import into Inventor. Here are a few wheels I have found, import them and scale them to size.

[johnboy]

Sign up to this and you can download loads of step files that will import into Inventor. Here are a few wheels I have found, import them and scale them to size.

what step files

[Lazer]

On that site you can click the wheel you want, then dlaod it as a .Step file, .Sat or an .Iges, all will open in Inventor.:wink:

[johnboy]

On that site you can click the wheel you want, then dlaod it as a .Step file, .Sat or an .Iges, all will open in Inventor.:wink:

You didn't list any sites.

[Lazer]

:oops: sorry, forgot to add the link
http://www.3dcontentcentral.com/Search.aspx?arg=wheel

sign up to that and download them for free.

[johnboy]

can you edit pipes in frame generator, I want to notch them so they fit comfortably on top of eachouter.