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Creating a shaft and placing a bearing

Creating a shaft and placing a bearing - Inventor Tutorial

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Creating a shaft and placing a bearing

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- [Instructor] The next area I'd like to focus on in the Design Accelerators, are the tools in the Power Transmission panel. To begin, we'll start with the Shaft Generator. The Shaft Generator creates a shaft by using segments and geometry that connects segments rather than a series of sketches, or a half profile that's revolved. The advantage of this is the ability to make modifications on the fly, and think about how the shaft would actually be built. For example, I might not want the same configuration or sizes for any of these elements, instead, I'll focus on cylinder one. I don't want a chamfer on the end, so I can remove that feature. I want to keep it cylindrical, and I want to keep it a fillet, but perhaps I want to change the size of that fillet. I'll bring that down to 0.030. And then, I'll change the overall size of that segment. I'll change the diameter, and I'll change the length by entering new values. As I input these values, you'll see the preview on the screen is…

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