Drawing Roller Shutters

[nicolas]

Hi,

I am looking for ways to draw the rolling of blades or slats around an axe for Aluminum Roller Shutters. The path of the rolling is an hellix, rolling around a 70 mm octogonal reel then continue downward in a downward movement.

I have attached some pics from Catalogues and Guides where such have been drawn. I am looking for clues and best of all if I can contact someone who has actually done this in Autocad or Inventor or any other 3D Software. This is a long overdue project and any help will be greatly appreciated.


Thanks.

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[JD Mather]

....someone who has actually done this in Autocad or Inventor or any other 3D Software.

Coil surface for the spiral stitch to extruded surface for path, then curve driven pattern and Component Pattern.

[nicolas]

Thank for the quick response.
Jut one or two hints about how to start will be great. I have the cad drawing of the octogonal reel and the slats in DWG. I understad that I need to import them in Inventor and create a Reel Part and a Slat Part and then mount them and do all the operations you stated in an Assembly. Again, many thanks.

[JD Mather]

Jut one or two hints about how to start will be great.

Hint 1. Sign up for a class. Inventor is a professional program and deserves (requires) a professional level of preparation. Your design will take advanced knowledge of the software (at least 6 mths experience after training).
Hint 2. I (almost) never use AutoCAD stuff in Inventor. AutoCAD stuff is (almost) always garbage. Better to start from scratch.

Hint 3. - start here http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/SkillsUSA%20University.pdf
Hint 4. - go through the Help>Learning Tools>Tutorials and Skill Builders.

Hint 5. More here http://au.autodesk.com
Hint 6. - and here http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com...tutorials.html

....just the way it is. Once you learn the program most say they don't know how they ever used AutoCAD.