On this week, the assignment was to model(draw, render, animate, simulate. I have a experience with a SolidWorks and Sketchup. I modeled and rendered with Autodesk Inventor. I modeled a part of my potential project (Real life game with third person view). It will be 3D printed and assembled with 2 Gopro cameras, 2 Servo motors, 1/2 inch diameter aluminium pipe. I decided to using Autodesk Inventor for this assignment. because I wanted to try that I haven’t used it before. I downloaded the free student software from the autodesk website. I’m going to model a Gopro 3D mount with pan-tilt motion. there are many servo motor’s CAD model files on internet. I downloaded GoPro and servo motor models.

I assembled all the file I downloaded, and modified the size to servos fit into the mount. It looked like belowīut the angle of the camera mount was limited to see downward. I needed to change the angle.įirst mistake : The biggest mistake I made was that the Gopro case was not fit in my Gopro model. I measure the size of Gopro case from the STL file I downloaded (link : ) but It was Gopro1. If I used parametric properties when I made dimensions, I could save much times. Second mistake : Gopro case cannot be assembled with Gopro because of the lens. I also needed pan-tilt mount, I downloaded similar model from “” It will be 3d printed and the design should be added hole for the bolt to be fasten well I changed design for the lens.īall joint : I made ball joint to connect aluminium pipe and camera mount. , but It was STL file so if I want to modify it, I have to convert STL file to 3D model. Mesh enabler is plugin for Inventor that makes mesh files to solid base feature or surface base feature. The Mesh Enabler application converts mesh features to solid base features or surface features. I scaled the downloaded STL files with this way

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