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01-02-2009, 03:07

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Re: Conveyor belt help

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Originally Posted by cardinalman86

If you know the shape of it, draw the sides using splines and extrude from there.

A similar way is to draw the path just along the inside or the outside surface of the belt (not both), extrude as a surface, then use the Thicken tool to give it a consistent thickness.

Depending on your requirements, one of the generators in Inventor might do the trick.

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