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You actually made chain on inventor? We've been trying to do that for ages, but with no luck. Did you just create a single link and place it over and over again or what?

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wow, i could never do chain in inventor, if there is a way to do it without making a single linking and placing it over and over please do tell!, nice work

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I'd love to see the browser bar for that - I bet it's chock full of sub-assemblies. Well done.

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Now that is a sweet design

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Congratulations, you have far, far, FAR more patience than I. (I'm doing well to get all the nuts and bolts in, or even get the sprockets aligned.)

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Now! you must tell us all how you created those chains as the other have i've spent much time in trying mine own but no cigar

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Sorry about the thread hijack, but I have a modular iPart of 35-pitch roller chain for Inventor that uses an embedded Excel spreadsheet to create an assembly of roller chain. I cannot claim credit for creating this part, as I found it on the hard drive of one of Team 228's 3DS Max/Inventor computers three years ago, but it's certainly one of the most useful parts I've ever had in Inventor! :D

http://www.team228.org/documents/Rol...n_Inventor.zip (Right click, Save Link/Target As)


As far as backwards compatibility goes, I know for sure it works in Inventor 7. ;)

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to make chain in inventor, draw one link and create an assembly of say 5 or 10 links than connect these together in the final assy and add a few extra links if nessissary

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The chain took quite a lot of work to get right, the picture i have on here is acutally the first time i did it; i just finished redoing it yesterday. i made a couple of different parts. i made the middle link that's one whole part with the two rods already in it offset .05", the two outer links as an assembly, then a couple of edited pieces that would complete the chain.
Then i just assembled the chain in certain pieces, constrained the chain to both sprockets and then used two different edited length connectors between the two chains. I mirrored it over a plane in the center of the robot representations so that i didn't have to do it again. It gets easier once you've done it once. That's how i did, i don't think there's a really easy way to assemble one chain and use it again without making a table, linking it, doing all the correct math and making sure your assembled parts are the right distances apart.