Inventor Studio Productions

This unit was all about using Inventor Studio to create images and animations. It was fun, especially watching my drawings move on my screen. I had to return to the tutorials for reference on moving the camera, but I got it to move precisely where I wanted it to go. It was also fun to play around with the lighting, experiment with the lighting styles, and see what different colors the lights could make.


Leveling Assembly 1



Leveling Assembly 2



Leveling Assembly 3



                                          The Leveling Assembly Animation
For this animation, I used the four color lighting style. I left three of the lights as white, but I set one of them to the color orange to add a slight tint to the assembly. I started the animation with a view of the entire assembly to show how the parts move together. For the second half, as it retracted, I set the camera to zoom in on the screw in order to show detail on how it turns to move the other parts. I then ended the animation by returning the camera to its original view. The background for this animation was set to default. This makes the background less distracting and diverse from any other animations that have a fancy background.

Presenting the Presentations

This short unit was all about creating presentation files of previous drawings, supported by a couple tutorials. The unit was short and simple, with the exception of a winding section line. For each of the previous drawings, I created 2 B-sized sheets, one for an exploded isometric view, and another for an assembly section view. The drawings are below.


Leveling Assembly Section



Leveling Assembly Exploded Isometric

Wheel Assembly Section

Wheel Assembly Exlploded Isometric

Creating Assemblies

The latest assignments in my 3D modeling class were assemblies, where I drew parts, then them put them together to make objects. There were two drawings and a tutorial. Though the tutorial took a while, it was fun to take new parts and put them together. However, I messed up at least one thing about every part, but I ended up fixing most of the problems. The two assemblies are below.

Wheel Assembly

Leveling Assembly

The Section 5 Test

Since the last post was the section 5 test. The test was on a drawing from the book, to create the 3D part, make it into a 2D orthographic view, and then fully annotate it. The task was simple, with few problems. The hardest part was probably tolerancing the two holes in the back of the figure. The drawings are shown below:


Orthographic




Isometric



Getting More Intricate

This Section focused on more advanced drawings, starting with the hairdryer. After a few more 3D sketches, I had to start turning them in to fully annotated sketches. I had to draw new parts for some, but others were based on older drawings. The most challenging one would have to be the last, where I had to make a lot of different views for the hairdryer.


3D Hairdryer



Hairdryer Views

Now that the introductions are through...

This past week, I have been using the inventor program to draw 3D objects and materials. The unit taught the basics of how to draw things in inventor, starting with a sketch, giving it depth, and then shaping it to look the way it should. I also, at times, had to label an objects on what their size, volume, center of gravity, and material were, which wasn't hard due to the fact that the information is just three clicks away. However, I found the tutorials a bit tedious, given the fact that I prefer to draw things in my own style rather than follow a step-by-step example. But as of now, I am fully aquainted with Autodesk Inventor, and ready to draw more.

This is my lattest drawing in Inventor as of this post.

The End of the Year

Well, the semester is almost over. In this blog post, I have included a two point perspective from the pictorals unit. It's a shed that I drew and traced on velum, and it took me a while to scan it into the computer. The other one is a drawing I've alredy completed once, but I retraced it using a method called inking. Needless to say, it looks cool.

Two Point Perspective Shed

Inking Development