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Amazing!!! I was looking in all forums how to connect pipes with distinct shapes and here is the answer!!! Thank you for sharing!!

Transitioning form SolidWorks (again - job requirement). These videos make the transition so much smoother and easier. When I come across something I've done 1000 times in SolidWorks and attempt to do the same in Inventor, I get tripped up over differing commands and terminology. After watching one of your videos everything comes flooding back. Thank you for making my job easier!

Thanks for sharing your wisdom! The content is wonderful, keep them coming. Cheers

Insulting my eyeballs...lol. Thanks mate. So quick and easy.

sharp and quick. thank you sir. I have been intending to make some covers for our columns in the shop. square bolt flange at the bottom loads up with milling chips and is nearly impossible to sweep.

These videos are really fantastic. Great teaching style, would love to see something on ilogic someday.

thanks for your clear explanation !

You da' man! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.

In Oct. 1990 i wrote a Lisp program that appeared in Cadalist Magazine called "Flat Out". it used some interesting mathematics. My approach was to draw a solid cone. then chop off the top ie cutting plane perpendicular axis of the cone. this gives a round to round transition. Then draw a square on the base of this cone. Then using the 3 points to define a plan, 2 on vertex of the square side and the third point on the circumference of the top round that is half way between the 2 points on the square in plan view... or the 3rd point on the circle that lies on a line perpendicular to the line midway between the 2 points on the square. Then you have a cutting plan defined by these 3 point on the solid. cut and delete that side of the cone. Then do that 3 more times and you get a square to round transition.

Right to the point, thanks so much!

Hey Neil, that was my best project. The original spec was 140 pages. But I only had 38 pages worth of functionality funded by development all those years ago. Didn't have multi-body sheet metal back then...

The way u describe is very easy to follow first video i watched pretty sure ill learn alot here

Can you apply a top down/ or skeletal approach to sheet metal design within a part or assembly? Selfish questions/requests>> What can/can't you do after a multi body part file is converted into an assembly/ How do you share individual bodies to be worked on as sub assemblies or individual parts in this situation? How to project operations from one part to another in assembly. e.g boring etc. (Can you use sculpt?) Imate TUT please Can you successfully place parts with adaptivity into different assemblies? HOW?? P.S I come from a woodworking/architectural background. Big fan of your instruction style. Will watch video whether I think I know what is covered or not. More likely than not I end up learning something anyway. Effortless, entertaining and always informative. Thank you for inviting us all into your head.

beautiful!

Excellent!

great video

Very helpful!

Hello, I just want to say that you can actually make a rip gap of size 0 and it will still allow you to make a flat pattern.

before you let me learning am realy enjoying with you're comment

Thanks a lot your videos wery helpful.

"Insulting my eye-holes".....LOL! So glad I'm in good company in that I can't stand to have workplanes visible. Great video as usual. Very insightful. When I first discovered your channel, I found your background music distracting, but I'm starting to get used to it. Especially in this one when I feel like we're modeling in middle earth! Keep up the great work.

You are the best. I have learned lots from you

Hi absolutely love your channel, I know multibody solids of sheet metal are new but is there anyway to make a flange meet the face of another body. Creating parts and having them interfere with each other is really getting old.

Thanks for this awesome video... Would it be possible to make a video tutorial about importing a 3D Solid from AutoCAD into Inventor and then converting to sheet metal and then unfolding?

Thanks!

Quick question. In actual sheet metal shops, the concentric parts like you show, are fine for a single solid body. It can be cut in auto cad or in a shear. But what about complex parts like this involving offsets and angles that are not parallel requires that multiple solid bodies be created. Can you touch on this? I know you don't do sheet metal ipt much. But I am a huge fan.

Tks from Ro !

Great content,

great, graet.

Delicious and bombastic!! lol

How do you then put a connecting flange on the round end of this transition!

thanks what about an over lap for riveting or joining in some other manner

good, I liked it , sometimes I got lost when you go to one command to other without calling it out, so it makes it hard to follow, but that could be me, just being a slow 64 Y.O. man, je je je , will recommend to anyone, please continue on, I appreciate it.

you can explain or show how to make the same model only in standard ipt. Just starting adventure with 3D modeling

Way better than my Inventor videos 😅

Thank you very much. You are amazing . And beautiful music.

very good

how can export the unfold drawing to autocad in 1:1scale?

nice vid

Can you do a video drawing it out by hand

How can I make this become a solid (not sheet metal) thanks. If you have a video about that. Appreciated!!-- or can you convert this duct to a solid part... thanks

thank's master

sjr how we can convert solid parts into sheet metal in inventor

Only Note: This part it can't be manufactured in reality , because on bending machine , most of them , you can't bend sheet metal like this , it has to be done in 2 parts , 2 halves . Thanks for video.

How might you add 2" of straight to the square end of this fitting?

how do you do the straight extensions shown on the part in the thumbnail;?

how to make curved cone and get flat pattern for it. i already made a 3D model for it on inventor using contour roll feature but when i unfold it it uses cylindrical method not conical.

thanks Sir you are realy help me to do my job done. auto subscribe.

these are really helpful videos. ive learnt a lot from you. is it possible to create a flat plan of an extruded pipe that is bent at various angles? example the bars on a lawnmower

thankyou good video short easy to listen to and easy to follow.

its heart breaking that the apprentice now waits for the design to come out of the office instead of getting his scriber out

How to make it in Fusion360????

deja vu. same thing this mo4ning glad I did same way👍. do you know much about the k factor? if you do could you lay them down in your rebound understandable terms. keep up the good work

This is different from the image advertising the video??

Ive had to make one of these bitches out of 1.5mm LCS... Such a pain in the arse to get spot on using only a selection of stakes, templates, a hide mallet and boxpan folder lol

I have problem can you help me please

i like u duting

hello sir how r u can you send me round to oveal

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God I hope the power never goes out Line development and true lengths of the pattern world is a lost art to technology I feel like a dinosaur but it’s a good video I think I’ll be sticking with my solid math skills though

I owe you a pint

im trying to make the thing in real life ...lol

my dear friends I want same this work in AutoCAD . how can possible. please help me

That's not going to work in the field. For one thing, your area on your circle is much less than on the square, so this is no good for practical purposes. Sure, if you like to play with computers instead of doing actual work, I guess it's OK. Actually bending the sheet metal & cutting it doesn't work this way, however. That's why they should BAN engineers from designing stuff. They know nothing about the real world... For example, how are you going to change an alternator out on the roadside, that you can't get to without removing the fender, the wheel well, the air conditioning unit, and/or pulling the motor, when all you really need is a bigger engine compartment, where the alternator is easily reachable from underneath & held on with two bolts... Oh, I get it, call the tow truck, and 500 dollars labor later to have a shop do it...

great, graet.