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Hi

I'm currently evaluating Inventor with the 30 day trial I received from one of their distributors.

I have used solidworks for many years, and I have found the modelling part of Inventor fairly straightforward.

I'm trying to model a two components which are typical of one of our core products.

Imagine a round billet with a tapered bore,  this is divided into four segments, and it slides over another taper.

As the four components slide onto the taper they find a point when their internal taper matches the taper on the static item.  Now when you slide these components further onto the taper, the four items move outwards from the centre and the outer edges of each quadrant remain intact with the taper.

I don't know how to restrain this is Inventor.
 

RE: New to Inventor

Have you tried using tangency constraints between the conical surfaces?

I don't think Inventor will handle the transition from no contact (btween conical surfaces) to the contact solution...but there might be ways to do so in the more advanced animation/modelling options.

RE: New to Inventor

You didn't post any ipt, iam files and I'm not familiar with editing pictures, but you can use Contact Sets.

Another method might be to split face and contact point in both parts to constrain. Works pretty much the same as SolidWorks.  But without any files to demonstrate.....

http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/skillsusa%20university.pdf

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