Can Inventor help me with simulating cogs?

[zochja]

I am trying to show a 3d movement in real time. Would Inventor be good for this? I need to show cogs turning and which way attached objects would move because of the turning cogs. Sorry to sound so basic, but I am very new to this type of thing. Thanks.

[JD Mather]

Should be trivially easy. Zip and attach what you have so far.

[shift1313]

it sounds like he does not have the software to me JD.

Yes inventor has dynamic simulation which allows you to add torque, forces, dampers and spings, gravity etc to assemblies and show what they would do under these conditions.

here is an example of something i did in inventor 09.

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/maperez/FlintSpec1.zip

Someone im helping out wanted to see the trajectory of their Girder front end. You can trace points

This was something in Solidworks. Someone on here was asking about gears. If you watch the animation you can see the right gear bouncing back and forth a little(the video has a very slow framerate). This is because the right gear is driven by the teeth on the left gear.

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/maperez/GearAssy.zip