Chapter 9 Working

Drawings
And an Introduction to Inventor!

Introduction

Also called production drawings are the final, complete documentation of a design.

A collection of drawings that provide all necessary information for the construction and
assembly of an engineering (engineered) product

Number of drawings depends on the number of parts and how complex the design

Usually include orthographic views of all parts requiring special manufacture, detailed
specs for all parts that can be purchased from a vendor, assembly drawings and specific
manufacturing or machining instructions.

Many customized formats and presentation styles, most aspects have been
standardized, though

Paper and Layout

Decide appropriate paper size and orientation (landscape/portrait). Paper size

determined by availability of printers/plotters, proper clarity, and industry and
company standards

All drawings will have the appropriate borders, title blocks, and sometimes X-Y
coordinates to locate specific items

Structure of Working Drawings

Drawing on P. 350

Type in Table and AutoCAD will Present a

Table to Fill in Just Like Excel

For the balloons with leader lines, type

TP for Tool Pallet, Annotation - tag

Detail Drawings

Vendor Parts Notes

In Inventor, Start by Creating a Single Part

Click 2D sketch (ULH corner), choose a plane

to sketch on

The drawing tools (sketch) in Inventor

are similar to those in AutoCAD

Use the // parallel icon in the constrain tab

to make the lines parallel to each other

Click on the // icon, then click on both

of your lines

Right click on one of the line, select Show

Constraints

Show Constraints

Click on your lines the symbols shown next

to them indicate their constraints

To delete a constraint, esc., then right click

on the constraint, select delete

Move the lines

Lets examine the symmetrical constraint

Choose construction line as this line wont

define the part, but is used for construction

Change the length of the lines to create

the bottom of part. Dimensioning tool:

Use Coincident Constraint to move all the

lines onto your construction rectangle

Use Coincident Constraint to move your

circle onto your construction rectangle

Use tangent to move your circle up to the top

line.

Use Mirror to create another circle on the

other side of the axis, delete previous arcs

Create a circle centered on your rectangle

center with a radius of 1.65625

Use the Trim command to remove unneeded

portions of circles

Use the Mirror command for the LHS

Get rid of the construction lines, etc., if you

like

Once everything is correct, select Finish

Sketch to exit Sketch and go to 3D

In the 3D Model tab, extrude your base up

0.125in

Notice the options in your Extrude command

Layer #2

Now, make your first circle

Now, add the other 3 circles, plus 6 semicircular arcs

Extrude 0.3125, and add to the first layer

Create a new part for the gasket, and

another new part for the screws

Its easy to add threads on the screw

Modify Thread

Assembly

When you are done creating all of your parts, you can assemble them together

Choose I New and then instead of a part, select assembly

Move all your components into place using

constraints

Take advantage of the hundreds of YouTube

videos for Inventor

For example,

Constraints: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM-8z3F_464