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



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