Slot Autocad

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DoesAutoCAD LT have a slot/obround generator, such as the one in Inventor, to save the ball-ache of having to draw a rectangle with circles at the ends and then have to trim all the unwanted entities out? If it does, l cannot find it. Many thanks.

Hi,

I want to create a slot on a curved face and the extrude it, but I cannot find a way how to get this done.

What I have already done is to project the slot onto the curved surface. But as you can see the slot is distorted on the right hand end.

Now I know that for sure, he used Project tool, and that create two curves, from top and bottom, connected by projections of perpendicular lines (dots in resault), which makes, as I call it post before, a "loop". He should use Intersection tool, or project only an edge not whole face.

@HughesTooling: Aahh I understand now what you mean. OK but does that mean I cannot use a spline at all for sweeping? Is it a bug?

In my 'real' part the curve comes from an DXF-file and there it is working neither. I don't know what the DXF curves are converted to after inserting to F360.

No there's no problem using a spline, the problem is you projected a surface to the plane and the surface has 2 edges so you ended up with 2 splines in your sketch, one on top of the other. If you turn the sketch on and hold the mouse button down for a second you will get a selection list and it shows 2 curve. Delete one of the curves and it will work.

I am working on a project and I need a cylinder (pipe actually) drawn that is 40" long, 1" OD with a wall thickness of 1/8" and a slot that goes thru both sides (180 degrees apart). The slot is 1/4" wide and needs to be 6 1/4" long. The slot should start 3/4" from the end of the pipe or cylinder.

If your pipe was created from a sketch on an origin plane constrained centrally to the origin point, then create a sketch on one of the either two origin planes and draw your slot profile which you wish to cut out from the pipe. Your slot should be difined with two dimensions - the 1/4" and the 6 1/4", and the another dimensions defining the position of the slot - which is 3/4" from the end. With these three dimensions, your sketch should be fully constrained. If its not, you need to use other constrains such as tangent, parallel, conincident, etc, etc.

OK, I need a little push. I can draw a circle, dimention it, extrude it to my correct lenght and then shell it to create my pipe. I am assuming that I did the following like David asked me to do......"pipe was created from a sketch on an origin plane constrained centrally to the origin point".

I was able to examine your drawing and created my own except for the slot. I am struggling with how to make the slot. I am able to make a hole the goes thru my pipe. I made 2 holes did but cant seem to get how to delete the material from hole to hole. Thanks again, all of the help here has been great.

JD, am I getting closer? I had some struggling with your last couple of post, and the doc you sent was hard for me to understand. Most I felt like it was greek to me.........But I feel like I am progressing. Thanks for you patience.

Sign up for a class. You are missing construction line from image I posted and missing tangent constraints between the lines and the circles. The lines should have vertical constraints. You have two .25 dimensions when only one is needed. Your sketch 2 has not changed color.

Creating slots while working with a 2D sketch has never been easier. Autodesk Inventor provides 5 different options to create any slot you need in just a few clicks. For straight slots, you can choose from Center to Center, Overall or Center Point slots. Below is a quick example of the points you would need to define to create each.

Pardal RE: Drawing slots birdlegs (Mechanical)10 Aug 03 01:10did you know you can fillet two parallel lines (join them with an arc that has a diameter equal to the distance between the lines) by just using the fillet command and picking the lines?

There is no need to draw a rectangle and then fillet 4 times. RE: Drawing slots chicopee (Mechanical)10 Aug 03 08:26I your drawing is in 3D you can create a cylinder of the size of the slot and deduct it from the object containing the slot. Then you can go either 2D or 3D wireframe. googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1406030293255-2'); ); Red Flag This PostPlease let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

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On the slots would it work to create a tool profile with smaller kerf size in sheetcam so it cuts the slot oversize? ie, if the actual kerf is .050, I make a tool profile with a .040 kerf and when it cuts the slot will be nominally .020 oversized.

In my thinking (and I could easily be wrong), In changing the kerf, it allows me to alter the clearance of slots without going through the workflow. For example, if I tried a sample one, and it was a little too loose, I could increase the kerf size on the tool in SheetCam to tighten it up. If I do it with the original model, I would have to go back and redraw the CAD, and then go through the entire CAM process as well.

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