The C Clamp

My latest project was a c clamp. Its size initially made it hard to dimension, as it was larger than my regular measuring tool reached. It's shape confused me for a while, but after looking at it and applying some dimensions, my Inventor replication was really close to the actual piece. The hardest part though was definitely animating it. I knew what to do, but I couldn't get inventor to move the right parts in the right way. I eventually decided to play constraints between parts to my advantage and move only one part, dragging the other parts with it.

Making Digital Plastics

In this last project, I took a plastic Wheelr High School water bottle and drew it in Inventor. The drawings I had to make with it followed the sameoutline as the Bottle Opener, but some parts presented a challenge. I couldn't remove the tip of the lid, so I had to measure around the lid base to measure it. Also, the lid and its features were new and irregular to me. The bottle, though it's the largest part, was probably the easiest.


Bottle Base




Bottle Exploded Isometric



Bottle Lid Tip



Bottle Section




Bottle Lid





Inventor Studio Bottle



Special Project #1

Since the last post, I have spent around two weeks measuring and drawing a bottle opener/cork remover in inventor. It was interesting to get every detail in, because some had to be done in a specific order in order for the part to turn out right, and then one part I spent less than two total minutes on. In the end, the parts fit together perfectly, and I animated the bottle opener to do what it does in the physical world.


Bottle Opener Base




Bottle Opener Coil Screw




Bottle Opener Pin




Bottle Opener Exploded Isometric




Bottle Opener Lifting Gear Lever




Bottle Opener Assembly Section



Bottle Opener Presentation