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Originally Posted by Tanner
Seriously? Nifty.
Wish Inventor exported as FBX (or rather I wish I had SolidWorks and knew how to use it). Would be quite fun to practice driving before the robot is done being built even if it is 100% accurate.
Any plans in some-far off future to add ability for users to "plug-in" their own bots?
-Tanner
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See my long-winded post #7 below.
Our hearts are in the right place, and our heads and hands are trying to keep up.
There are some tedious parts to setting up a sane user interface that can import models on the fly during an exhibit, and there are some complicating factors (like not slowing to a crawl when a model is too complex for the equipment trying to simulate it, and limiting users to single "part" models right now).
Like you guys, we are right now dealing with getting a useful 2010 product done before build season is over, while also adding a bell or whistle here and there. Importing users' models is one of those bells and whistles.
Even last year you could import an FBX file to get your imagery into the simulator (and you still can this year). The trick is automagically wrapping an accurate-enough, but not too complex, invisible physics-model around the graphics. That remains in our hands...
Stay in touch, and find a way to get your Inventor file exported (look for plug-ins) (FBX is definitely a format Autodesk knows and loves so there "must" be a way to do it); or download a student version of SolidWorks (search in Chief Delphi for instructions or contact mplanchard via a Chief Delphi PM), and learn just enough to import Inventor files and then save them as a SolidWorks part. I'll try to get the result into the simulator.
Remember to do the equivalent of creating a single part when doing your work in Inventor.
Blake