Lego Parts in Inventor

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Originally Posted by 7-11number1

Hi this is team 1711. This coming season will only be our 3rd year in FIRST so we trying more at becoming a more organized team and give students more hands on experience in the build. One idea was to give students lego mind storm in a tech class and follow that with having the students go on computers and create 3d models of their robots in Inventor.
Our problem is that we do not have any lego parts in .ipt files to use. I have searched online and found lego building programs but that will not work because we are using school computers, so my only option is to take every lego we have and create a library of dozens of parts.
I was hoping some one would know if we could buy a package online that would have the pre-built lego files, and if not just some good inventor tips for organizing and creating such a large number of parts.

Dear 7-11,

I have modeled over 200 Lego Parts for Autodesk Inventor. They are in dot ipt and dot aim files.

I did this by Taking the LDraw data from LeoCAD (a freeware) , exporting 3Dstuio and importing to AutoCADMechanical, and exopting dot iges and importing to AutoDeskInventor. Then using that import as a referance, I would recreate the part in a new dot ipt file.

My parts include everything from the original Lego Mindstorms (Lego Mindstorms 1.0 and/or 1.5). I was hopping to finish the new NXT parts before I put my lego library on the web.

When I finish my library, I foresee a problem. I perdict that once I finish the library, it will be about 300MB. I was trying to make a website using Google's Gsite product. Gsite does not allow a 300MB upload. How else can I put it on the web?

I wanted to do what you are trying to do (practice building robots using Lego Mindstorms and Inventor), but I was unsucessfull in compliting my Lego Library before my high school senior year. I am a University student now. I would like to see you fulfill this.

Respectfully,
nasa-senpai