COG animation in Inventor
COG animation in Inventor
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I am playing around with Inventor in my drafting class at school, and I was trying to animate gravity (so say if I dropped a die into a box it would roll, like normal gravity would act upon it, until it would stop).
Does anyone know how to do this?
Another example I was trying to set up with COG was that I made a snowglobe, and I was trying to make it so that the snowflakes inside of it would fly around and settle when you moved it around, just like a regular snowglobe would.
Thanks
Does anyone know how to do this?
Another example I was trying to set up with COG was that I made a snowglobe, and I was trying to make it so that the snowflakes inside of it would fly around and settle when you moved it around, just like a regular snowglobe would.
Thanks





RE: COG animation in Inventor
Use inventor for setting up the models including parametric dimensions. then use 3D-Studio for some kind of animation.
Unigraphics NX4,NX3,NX2,R17
Inventor 10,9,8,7
Solid Edge 10,9,8
Solid Works 2000,98
Mechanical Desktop 4,3
Autocad 2004DX,2000,R14, R12
Teamcenter 9
RE: COG animation in Inventor
Many thanks though, I will look into it.
RE: COG animation in Inventor
Ratso
AutoCAD and Inventor
RE: COG animation in Inventor
Inventor really isn't meant to be a CG type program. It has very limited animation capabilites and almost no real world physics capabilites. I don't know about the new fetures in IV11 that Ratso suggested as I haven't used IV11 but I imagine if you intend to do some simulation type work you will want to import your models into some other program like Martin (oliebol) suggested. If you have access to another CAD program, like CATIA v5, I know it does a better job with the physics stuff but I think your hopes of a fully animated model are going to require something other than CAD. This just isn't what it was intended to do.
RE: COG animation in Inventor
If not, I could take the file home, and download a program which I could do this with.
I am using Inventor 10, our school has not yet upgraded to IV11, but we should be doing it within this semester.
Thanks again to everyone
Class of 2011 NCSU engineers
RE: COG animation in Inventor
Mook
Class of 2011 NCSU engineers
RE: COG animation in Inventor
RE: COG animation in Inventor
Mook
Class of 2011 NCSU engineers