Chief Delphi - Who is excited about inventor 10?

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Originally Posted by crazykid234

I especially appreciate the design accelerator as well. The ability to render gears in that amount of time is phenomenal! Apart from that, I really like the wiring capabilities, and nailboard drawings.

The Design Accelerator certainly does what it advertises. Being able to rapidly prototype gear trains, chain drives, etc. should be a big help to those teams which design their robots before they build them (and maybe help make CAD believers of the rest).

Be aware, that just as with the stress analysis stuff, you need to look closely at how they model parts to be sure that your design will work as intended. For example, the spur gears created by the Component Generator use a simplified single-arc for the tooth profile - not an involute, as real gears are made. While this probably won't mean much for the low-tolerance world of FIRST, it would be a concern for someone engineering a "real" drive system. On the other hand, since Autodesk uses such a simple model, the file size is half that of an involute spur gear - which is very important to FIRST teams with 3 yr old PCs!