InventorIt's in 3D, dude!
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What am I doing, you may ask? Why, I'm just doodling. But I'm doing it 3 dimensions. Doing so allows me to make real, tangible objects that I can hold in my hand. Nowadays, you'd do all of this in 3D modeling tool, such as the one we're using: Autodesk Inventor. Inventor is a modelling tool used for creating objects, simply by doing a 2D sketch, pulling out the sketch to form a 3D-ized version of the sketch, and then adding or removing sections of the new model via extrusion, sketching on the objects faces, rounding edges, etc. All in all, if you can think of it, you can more than likely make it.
Making things in Inventor
I'm going to use a simple model to demonstrate how quick and easy it is to create an object. I should note that looks a bit wonky; Weebly doesn't seem to handle my pictures correctly. Anyways, here's me quickly stepping through the construction of object 2, which takes ~45 seconds to maybe two minutes to make.
Part 7: Admiration and Thoughts
It got printed in about 35 minutes, which allowed me to kipe these photos in class. Did I learn anything? Since I already had experience with Google/Trimble SketchUp way before ever touching Inventor, and have known (from Ben Heck) the functions of a 3D printer and their possibilities, I haven't learned anything new. But! I did get a cool trinket out of this, and I got experience.
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