i have just started learning to use Inventor. Your Assembly Constraints video is excellent. I have also down loaded your project files. Thank you will direct all I know to your channel.
I don't know about the way you explaining things but many thanks. It helps alot since im a nube. But the explanations are quite a drag, which explains EVERYTHING in a strange way. Surely helps people who truly are determined to learn. Regards
I would imagine that if you are watching these, you truly want to learn. So if you are not here to truly learn, then I agree these would be a huge drag.
Best video I have come across and I have been looking extensively. Well done, I think you even messed up a few times to show common mistakes. Well done again!
great great great tutorial. everything you do you explain with, what how and wherefore. allot of guys making tutorials could learn allot form you watching this tutorial!
Excellent video. I'm here to refresh my Inventor skills since I might get a job using the software. However, I don't want to sound like a hater, but this constraint command is soooo much easier in Solidworks. So switching from Solidworks to Inventor, I was really struggling with this command. But thanks to this video i understand it a lot better know specially the Assemble command. Thanks John.
Great job! Your step by step process is very easy to follow along, wish i had seen this video when I was in my Inventor class. I have 3D Max starting this week, I will definitely be watching U Tube videos to give me some additional help. Haven't checked them out yet, if your not the one in the videos I hope he (or she) does just as good of a job. Thanks and once again GREAT job!
Inventor is ridiculously cumbersome with its mating process. I use both SolidWorks and Inventor, I like Inventor, but the the mating process sucks. Thanks for the video John, it will help many.
Sorry for the late reply. I used contact sets. If you right click on a part in the browser there is an option to add it to a contact set. Do that on all the parts you want to bump into each other and then enable the contact solver. With the solver running you can drag parts on the screen and they will bump into other while you are dragging them around.
I do have good internet, no doubt about that. You are correct. If you have all the drawings and specs it might be easier to build all the parts first. Most of the time I am building from scratch so I do build my parts in the assembly. Inventor is really built for creating parts in the assembly. All you ahve to do is double click a part and you can edit from within the assembly.
Thank you for your swift reply.. I was aware of the contact set option and using the contact solver. I just wasnt sure if there was another method, using the contact solver chews up memory resources quite alot, so I was hoping there was another way.. Guess its time to upgrade my computer.. Thanks alot..
That depends on the environment. In the assembly environment you can right click on a part and select contact set. Do this on several parts, then go to the inspect tab and select activate contact solver. This will make parts selected as contact set to react to each other in the assembly environment. In the dynamic sim environment you can add a 2D or 3D contact joint. Let me know if that helps or if you want a short video on it.
I would lean toward using a revolve to create the door knob and possibly event the escutcheon. Once you have both created you will need to use an axis to axis mate to line up the door knob stem with the hole in the escutcheon. I would control the depth with a flush constraint at the bottom of the stem and the back of the escutcheon, perhaps with an offset to control the depth. It's kind of hard to explain without seeing exactly what you are trying to do.
You probably need to make them flexible. By default subassemblies are locked in position when placed in another assembly. If you right click the subassembly in the browser you can make if flexible. I think this will fix the issue.
I am not sure I follow. Yes, threaded holes and the fasteners in them will cause interference. By default each assembly has a representation in the browser that will turn off all fasteners to you can ignore interference form fasteners, since you expect that type of interference. Let me know if this helps.
Hello John. Very nice video. Do you have, by any chance, one that goes through the building of the trebuchet parts, with it's properties and etc? I looked at your videos but couldn't find it. It would be nice to see how you did all the modelling, the constraints (which there is video) and the dynamic simulation (which you also have the video). Thanks for sharing the video and your time.
Hum...that is a very interesting question. There is a bend tool that may be able to be used to accomplish this. You may also be able to complete this in 3DS Max and import the model into inventor. What is the purpose of the part. I have seen a lot of parts, but not sure if I have ever seen that before.
Yes, it did help. I was looking for videos about assembling things in Inventor for a long time (tried to find something in Russian), but couldn't find any videos with detailed explanation. Finally decided to try and find something in English, and here it is)))) I'm going to practice now...
Can you provide more detail as to what specifically you are trying to build. I really don't do a huge amount of surface modeling because most of what I build can be done in solids. Surface modeling is an art in itself. The only command I really use is sculpt to create solids from intersecting surfaces.
Thank you for the suggestion but it still will not allow me to drive constraints on the second subassy. When I right click in the constraints folder to drive constraints I only see replace component part and create note, as apposed to the first subassy i put in the assembly which lets me go into drive constraints :-(.
Hi, there is a gap between "Treb Arm" and both "Exernal Retaining Rings". How can we constrain it, so that the Treb Arm can move between both those rings along the axis (either in assembly environment or using the joints in simulation environment)? It's not important here for the kinematics, but it's kind of important for simulations. I'm really lost at this one ;/
John, nice vid.. Could u please explain how to make a moving part stop when it comes into contact with another part please? I noticed that your arm goes straight through the base plate, i realise it wouldn't do this when the trebuchet does its actual motions but just as an example how would you stop it from doing this??
If you check for interferences in your assembly does the fasteners threads get flagged? I usually bypass this by not selecting the fasteners when i do this check. But in some cases the bolt hole is not a through hole(bolt and nut). It is a tapped hole with a specific depth and checking to see if you fastener is correct length. In your assembly you have few fasteners so checking them manually is easy. But in some assemblies, I have thousands of fasteners. Is there a solution to this check?
I have a working hinge assembly but when I try and place it in a new assembly for example a door with 2 hinges, either only one of the hinges works as it should or neither work and I cannot access the driven constraints option in the browser bar. When I get one of the hinges to work the other simply follows the door stiff rather than bending at the hinge. Any ideas on how to solve this? Best regards Daniel
you must have awesome internet speed,, uploading 47 min HD video takes some time! :D i think if you have specifications given,, its easy to make parts separately and put them in assembly,, but if you are making something new or without specs,, we should build new parts within assembly,, i dn know if you can do it in inventor but in SW i do this way :)
jhon how did you conect the ball(projectile) with the structure(projectile arm) , we are speaking the dynamic simulation videos but i need the information how you did it , thanks...
Hello John Is there is any setting to show 3D constrains as in 2D sketch show fully constraind. coz whenever i try to constrain two parts by mate command one part was flipped automatically. how can i fix this.?
I downloaded the files, I have inventor pro 2011. any of the assemblies I try to open I get three errors they all say Error reading RSe stream... any ideas???? realy great video I watched them and want to watch again using the file to go through with. thanks for any help
I have been using 2016 for 8 weeks and contrasts worked. Now they don't? After setting one contrast it when will not have any freedom of movement, its locked in place. Is there a setting to fix this?
+John Helfen I have made 3 assembly's with 2016 with no constraint problems over the last 8 weeks. The assembly I doing now has 12 parts in it and on the last two parts has the problem. T will tray a two part Assembly and let you know what happens.
+John Helfen Hi, I made a 4 part assembly and constants work correctly. I am at a lost to why the assembly I building is failing. It must be a setting?
Can any one tell me how to Coil a Coil in Inventor?! Please If I have a spring or a coil, the I want to coil that again around another axis, how to do that?
@@matthewklinger9473 yes, exactly. Either touching with 0 offset or some distance apart if you enter an offset. But they will be parallel regardless of offset value.
Hey man...so I have a project that i want to run by you... I have the sketches and measurements. It shouldnt take you long.... Anyway...let me know if you are interested! I really want to get this project off the ground and could use the help. I can also pay if you want that..
i have just started learning to use Inventor. Your Assembly Constraints video is excellent. I have also down loaded your project files. Thank you will direct all I know to your channel.
Wow! Without a doubt, this is the best explanation of how to practically use the constraints function that I have seen. Thanks.
Thank you for the explanation, greetings from Guatemala!
Got hired for a new job using inventor, your videos really helped me be more comfortable with the software
Thank you a lot John, please keep up uploading priceless videos like these!
Great Video! I'm normally a solidwoks user and this really helped grasp the differences within inventor.
I don't know about the way you explaining things but many thanks. It helps alot since im a nube. But the explanations are quite a drag, which explains EVERYTHING in a strange way. Surely helps people who truly are determined to learn. Regards
I would imagine that if you are watching these, you truly want to learn. So if you are not here to truly learn, then I agree these would be a huge drag.
Best video I have come across and I have been looking extensively. Well done, I think you even messed up a few times to show common mistakes.
Well done again!
great great great tutorial. everything you do you explain with, what how and wherefore. allot of guys making tutorials could learn allot form you watching this tutorial!
Excellent video. I'm here to refresh my Inventor skills since I might get a job using the software. However, I don't want to sound like a hater, but this constraint command is soooo much easier in Solidworks. So switching from Solidworks to Inventor, I was really struggling with this command. But thanks to this video i understand it a lot better know specially the Assemble command. Thanks John.
Amazing explanation, very simple, clear and thorough ... Your videos are really helpful. Thank you so much!!!
By far the most helpful video I watched. BIG THUMBS UP!
Great job! Your step by step process is very easy to follow along, wish i had seen this video when I was in my Inventor class. I have 3D Max starting this week, I will definitely be watching U Tube videos to give me some additional help. Haven't checked them out yet, if your not the one in the videos I hope he (or she) does just as good of a job. Thanks and once again GREAT job!
Inventor is ridiculously cumbersome with its mating process.
I use both SolidWorks and Inventor, I like Inventor, but the the mating process sucks.
Thanks for the video John, it will help many.
Thanks for taking the time to post this. Extremely helpful.
i got cleared lot of confusion from this vedio,tqsm
Man, THANKS A LOT! Great explaining style, great voice.
Sorry for the late reply. I used contact sets. If you right click on a part in the browser there is an option to add it to a contact set. Do that on all the parts you want to bump into each other and then enable the contact solver. With the solver running you can drag parts on the screen and they will bump into other while you are dragging them around.
Great video, thank you for taking the time to do this.
I do have good internet, no doubt about that.
You are correct. If you have all the drawings and specs it might be easier to build all the parts first. Most of the time I am building from scratch so I do build my parts in the assembly. Inventor is really built for creating parts in the assembly. All you ahve to do is double click a part and you can edit from within the assembly.
Thanks a lot! You may consider an excellent teacher. Best regards, from Porugal: João Carvalho.
Thanks. Glad you liked it.
Excellent video sir! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and tips!
A really good and helpful video. I learned a lot from that. Thank you so much!
Great Video John keep up the stupendous work!
Thank you for your swift reply.. I was aware of the contact set option and using the contact solver. I just wasnt sure if there was another method, using the contact solver chews up memory resources quite alot, so I was hoping there was another way.. Guess its time to upgrade my computer.. Thanks alot..
Hej John. Thanks for an excellent video. Very well explained. Thank you.
Great Video.. Excellent video.. Best Regards from Venezuela
Thanks! Glad you liked it.
That depends on the environment. In the assembly environment you can right click on a part and select contact set. Do this on several parts, then go to the inspect tab and select activate contact solver. This will make parts selected as contact set to react to each other in the assembly environment. In the dynamic sim environment you can add a 2D or 3D contact joint. Let me know if that helps or if you want a short video on it.
I would lean toward using a revolve to create the door knob and possibly event the escutcheon. Once you have both created you will need to use an axis to axis mate to line up the door knob stem with the hole in the escutcheon. I would control the depth with a flush constraint at the bottom of the stem and the back of the escutcheon, perhaps with an offset to control the depth. It's kind of hard to explain without seeing exactly what you are trying to do.
You probably need to make them flexible. By default subassemblies are locked in position when placed in another assembly. If you right click the subassembly in the browser you can make if flexible. I think this will fix the issue.
THANK YOU! Finally got this!
Avanthika Durai glad it helped!
Glad you like it.
Great video! Thank you very much, it helped us a lot. Me and my Teacher, schoolteacher.
Great video! Ironic how you're helping all of us with your video and your last name is the German word for help. Haha!
When I worked with our German support team years ago, they all found that amusing as well. I dig it. I like helping people when I can.
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Yeah, years ago when I did product support for a bunch of our German customers, they found it quite amusing as well.
thanks John..Great work..keep it up.
Excellent video.
Thanks. Very helpful.
this was great help! thanks!
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Very helpful video...Thanks sir
I am not sure I follow. Yes, threaded holes and the fasteners in them will cause interference. By default each assembly has a representation in the browser that will turn off all fasteners to you can ignore interference form fasteners, since you expect that type of interference. Let me know if this helps.
Great, thank you so much
Hello John. Very nice video. Do you have, by any chance, one that goes through the building of the trebuchet parts, with it's properties and etc? I looked at your videos but couldn't find it. It would be nice to see how you did all the modelling, the constraints (which there is video) and the dynamic simulation (which you also have the video).
Thanks for sharing the video and your time.
thank you.....
Excellent; thanks a lot..!
Thanks John
Hum...that is a very interesting question. There is a bend tool that may be able to be used to accomplish this. You may also be able to complete this in 3DS Max and import the model into inventor. What is the purpose of the part. I have seen a lot of parts, but not sure if I have ever seen that before.
Thank you very much! you're very very explicative! :)
Thank you very much. This video was really helpful.
Glad it helped....i love this project.
Yes, it did help. I was looking for videos about assembling things in Inventor for a long time (tried to find something in Russian), but couldn't find any videos with detailed explanation. Finally decided to try and find something in English, and here it is)))) I'm going to practice now...
Can you provide more detail as to what specifically you are trying to build. I really don't do a huge amount of surface modeling because most of what I build can be done in solids. Surface modeling is an art in itself. The only command I really use is sculpt to create solids from intersecting surfaces.
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@Mr7136108 I have added the link to the description of the video.
thanks a lot.
thanks tutoring.
Thank you for the suggestion but it still will not allow me to drive constraints on the second subassy. When I right click in the constraints folder to drive constraints I only see replace component part and create note, as apposed to the first subassy i put in the assembly which lets me go into drive constraints :-(.
Hi, there is a gap between "Treb Arm" and both "Exernal Retaining Rings". How can we constrain it, so that the Treb Arm can move between both those rings along the axis (either in assembly environment or using the joints in simulation environment)? It's not important here for the kinematics, but it's kind of important for simulations. I'm really lost at this one ;/
This video was an excellent tutorial. But the download link is dead, wonder if you could re upload those files. Thanks.
John, nice vid.. Could u please explain how to make a moving part stop when it comes into contact with another part please? I noticed that your arm goes straight through the base plate, i realise it wouldn't do this when the trebuchet does its actual motions but just as an example how would you stop it from doing this??
could u do a segment on gears and making gears in autodesk
Great video! Thank you very much, it helped me a lot. Did you know your name means "helping" in German? ;-)
If you check for interferences in your assembly does the fasteners threads get flagged? I usually bypass this by not selecting the fasteners when i do this check. But in some cases the bolt hole is not a through hole(bolt and nut). It is a tapped hole with a specific depth and checking to see if you fastener is correct length. In your assembly you have few fasteners so checking them manually is easy. But in some assemblies, I have thousands of fasteners. Is there a solution to this check?
John do you have any tutorials on surface to solid process,delete faces-boundary patch,stitch etc,would be really helpfull,thanks
I have a working hinge assembly but when I try and place it in a new assembly for example a door with 2 hinges, either only one of the hinges works as it should or neither work and I cannot access the driven constraints option in the browser bar. When I get one of the hinges to work the other simply follows the door stiff rather than bending at the hinge.
Any ideas on how to solve this?
Best regards
Daniel
you must have awesome internet speed,, uploading 47 min HD video takes some time! :D
i think if you have specifications given,, its easy to make parts separately and put them in assembly,, but if you are making something new or without specs,, we should build new parts within assembly,, i dn know if you can do it in inventor but in SW i do this way :)
How can assemble or mate inner spherical convex part with four corner flat part in inventor 2014
jhon how did you conect the ball(projectile) with the structure(projectile arm) , we are speaking the dynamic simulation videos but i need the information how you did it , thanks...
I'm makinga doorknob realllly soon in class and i need severe help..
How do you put door knob, its stem, and an escutcheon together??
thanks!
more to the point
Hello John Is there is any setting to show 3D constrains as in 2D sketch show fully constraind. coz whenever i try to constrain two parts by mate command one part was flipped automatically. how can i fix this.?
I downloaded the files, I have inventor pro 2011. any of the assemblies I try to open I get three errors they all say Error reading RSe stream... any ideas???? realy great video I watched them and want to watch again using the file to go through with. thanks for any help
thank you
@Blu3eyes69 l just tested the link and it appears to be working fine. Can you try again and let me know if it works?
I find it funny how your last name, Helfen, is the German verb for "to help."
I have been using 2016 for 8 weeks and contrasts worked. Now they don't? After setting one contrast it when will not have any freedom of movement, its locked in place. Is there a setting to fix this?
are the parts grounded? constraints can appear to not "work" if all the parts are grounded.
+John Helfen
NO I should be able to move part along the one constant.
James Scannell if you start with a blank file and just assemble 2 parts does it work or is it specific to the file?
+John Helfen
I have made 3 assembly's with 2016 with no constraint problems over the last 8 weeks. The assembly I doing now has 12 parts in it and on the last two parts has the problem. T will tray a two part Assembly and let you know what happens.
+John Helfen
Hi,
I made a 4 part assembly and constants work correctly. I am at a lost to why the assembly I building is failing. It must be a setting?
Can any one tell me how to Coil a Coil in Inventor?! Please
If I have a spring or a coil, the I want to coil that again around another axis, how to do that?
28:15 when you set this offset, does it automatically make those two faces parallel?
The offset doesn't make them parallel, the mate constraint does. The offset just defines the space between the mates faces.
@@JohnHelfen So if I'm understanding correctly, If I make a mate and enter an offset, the two pieces should be parallel?
@@matthewklinger9473 yes, exactly. Either touching with 0 offset or some distance apart if you enter an offset. But they will be parallel regardless of offset value.
Do you have the part files available for dowload?
sir, by any chance do you still have the files? your dropbox link doesnt work. Thanks for the time sir
Oscar Rios in the description
Link fixed! Sorry about that, not sure what happened.
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Hey man...so I have a project that i want to run by you... I have the sketches and measurements. It shouldnt take you long.... Anyway...let me know if you are interested! I really want to get this project off the ground and could use the help. I can also pay if you want that..
send over stuff I will take a look. no promises.
+John Helfen Ok...where would you like me to send it?
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