Pumpkins128 Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 Hello I'm new here I use Autodesk Inventor 2008, and I need to make a coil around a coil for one part of my school work for next year... but I don't have a clue how to do it :S I drew a really rough picture of what I mean... ...yeah, my MSPaint skills are beyond comparison . If it's even possible to do it, could someone tell me how? Much appreciated --- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazer Posted August 10, 2008 Share Posted August 10, 2008 Your sketch is very clear , I do undersatnd what you need to do, I have gave this a shot but no luck so far, I started with the basic coil command in a part file then opened an assembly and sketched a coil to rotate the first coil, I cannot get a projection of the first coil to drive the second coil:huh:, I think a 3d sketch may be needed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strix Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 are you guys on the same course? http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=25908 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumpkins128 Posted August 13, 2008 Author Share Posted August 13, 2008 Oh thanks! I didn't expect a reply so soon . I've never even used 3D sketches before (meep) but I was messing around with it and i managed to make a coil look like more of a snails shell... like it was coiled differently... however it was just a green line, so I'm still at a complete loss for how to do it :S. I was using 'Helix' and so on... guess i'm pretty much an uber noob The blue cord on this link http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=353 is pretty much exactly what I need to do, do you think the guy who made it would know how to do it on Inventor? And be able to tell me if I asked him nicely and said please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazer Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=353 is pretty much exactly what I need to do, do you think the guy who made it would know how to do it on Inventor? And be able to tell me if I asked him nicely and said please? I don't think fuccaro uses Inventor, so we will not be able to do the coil in Inventor for you, he used autocad and I quess some cool lisp program he wrote was used. Autocad models can be used in Inventor but they are imported as dumb solids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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