Irregular slot anlong cylindrical part

Dear All...

How can I draw the irregular slot along cylindrical part..

haha:)

i only laugh because i did a project a few years back that had a sine curve path like that and it was awful to draw!!!!! I couldnt do it in autocad and ended up using another software package.

What i ended up doing in autocad to get close was use a spline and swept along the spline.

what software do you have available to you?

haha:)

 

i only laugh because i did a project a few years back that had a sine curve path like that and it was awful to draw!!!!! I couldnt do it in autocad and ended up using another software package.

 

What i ended up doing in autocad to get close was use a spline and swept along the spline.

 

what software do you have available to you?

I have inventor ver11. How can I do this ?

i havent tried this with inventor but i imagine it will be very difficult. Is that the only software you have access to? I drew mine in unigraphics. If you were using acad 07-09 you could draw your path(the hard part) and sweep along the path.

Is your path a single sine curve sweep? meaning is there one high spot and one low spot? this makes it easier. You could draw that in 3 pieces. draw a cylinder and then perpendicular to this you will draw your cut. (which you will draw half of it and mirror it about the x and y axis). i drew this in cad real quick to show you.

its really going to depend on what your path actually is. Can you give me a little more info on what the path needs to be