deRabes Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Hi This is my first post. I am a total beginner to Inventor.I need to put holes in the side of a cylinder. I have watched a few video tutorials but they have no voice over and they go so fast I just can't keep up. I want to understand what I am doing and why rather than just following it blindly. Anyone know of a good video on this that I could look at. Alternatively a written tutorial would be fine. I'm using Inventor 2012 Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdits7 Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 If you are looking for a book, I did a blog post about some good ones on my blog. http://inventortopix.blogspot.com Here is one called Mastering Autodesk Inventor 2012, http://inventortopix.blogspot.com/2011/07/mastering-autodesk-inventor-2012-and.html Here also is one for about six other books, http://inventortopix.blogspot.com/2011/08/autodesk-inventor-2012-books.html Hope this helps a little. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deRabes Posted October 26, 2011 Author Share Posted October 26, 2011 I'll have a look at these. Thanks for getting back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 If you can't figure it out - attach your file here and someone will walk you step-by-step through the process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deRabes Posted October 26, 2011 Author Share Posted October 26, 2011 Here's the file. Its simply a narrow tapered cylinder through which I need to drill 8 holes through the sides and in about half way. Various holes will be drilled through at 90 degrees to each other and the ability to relocate them slightly along the length of the cylinder would be great. Any help would be appreciated. Cylinder.ipt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 I don't see where you have made any attempt at all to create the holes? You might check out the examples in this document while I try to guestimate what you really want and work up an example. http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/skillsusa%20university.pdf You might be interested in the curve driven pattern information. Revolve rectangle sketch to create hole and pattern? Create workplane tangent to cone sketch hole centerpoint, add hole and pattern? Any specs on the location size and depth of these holes? Threaded? Standard 118° drill point, or flat bottom? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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