Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations waross on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Recent content by lawmate

  1. lawmate

    modelling inflatable structures

    What i am trying to do is design an inflatable structure made up of lots of individual cells. Imagine a bouncy castle, but a dome shape instead of a castle. The cells are akin to a layer of balloons stuck together and formed into a dome shape. It will be made up of a load of patterned pieces of...
  2. lawmate

    modelling inflatable structures

    Hi thanks for the reply. i thought i might have to use something like 3ds max. I don't have any experience with it so was hoping there might be a technique in inventor, which i'm familiar with. Oh well, time for tutorials. Cheers
  3. lawmate

    modelling inflatable structures

    Hi I am trying to model a structure made up of inflatable reinforced balloon type cells. I would like to be able to simulate the cells being inflated and deflated to various pressures and if possible then test the effect of different forces on the structure. Does anyone have any reccomendation...

Part and Inventory Search