JPEG Images for Inventor

[Bus1012]

Hows everyone's inventor projects coming

[joek]

Issues with constraining extruded aluminum

[JD Mather]

In addition to the Save Copy As type *.jpg method

there is also the Applications>Inventor Studio method that will give you a higher quality Rendering.

[Bus1012]

Thank you all for the help in saving my Inventor project as a .jpg image

[5n1p3r]

Im actually doing pretty well on my inventor project, my frames awesome, cant wait to throw it out on the simulation track

[Dan Richardson]

Originally Posted by joek

Issues with constraining extruded aluminum

I'm not familiar with the profile your trying to constrain but it may be easiest to create a reference plane along the face that you are trying to constrain it to. Depending whether or not your trying to create dynamic constraints. When I first started I never had considered using reference plains for constraints but it works well enough on strange shapes.

[writchie]

Originally Posted by joek

Issues with constraining extruded aluminum

If you're trying to constrain accurate 8020 profiles there is only a tiny flat section on the surface. If you are using flush constraints this is the only surface that will work as expected.

You often have to zoom in quite a bit for the flat strip to show up. Once you learn how to do this it will become second nature.

Also beware that the extrusions are 7 mil smaller their nominal length. You might have to use an offset to account for this.

80/20 has a 4 degree angle to make a vibration free connection. There is nothing stopping you from modifying the profile to be more square and easier to work with for your model.