BIM Models Via Reverse Engineering With Autodesk Inventor – Part 9

Freaking easy. At this point I created a sketch on the new plane, and projected the geometry that I needed from the knob.

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…then created a circular pattern of the cut as shown below…

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I would have liked to pattern the fillets as well, but there’s a tendency for fillets to fail patterning, and that was the case here –so I added the fillets after the circular pattern to get this…

In the home stretch now. Just a Pattern and a Mirror away. The pattern is shown below…

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The Mirror of the pair of knobs was the final procedure, and was accomplished by selecting every feature from the Revlove downwards in the Browser, then selecting the XZ plane in the Origin folder.

And the completed model is shown below.

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And that’s it. The part can be derived to reduce its size if needed. With a complicated part going into a large assembly, its manditory.  Till next time.

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