How to make a coil spring compress/animate | Autodesk Inventor

A tutorial for how to model a 3D coil spring in Autodesk Inventor and then animate it to show compression within a moving assembly. #Autodesk #Inventor #Tutorial #3DCAD #Design #Engineering #CAD

[@carsonvessar3763]

How are you the only person talking about how to make this and your not the first result on youtube when I search for it, I've been looking for this for years

[@plcpro7543]

Srarted working with Inventor about 2 yrs ago and have learned an enormous amount of techniques from you. THANK YOU!!!

[@xristoscham.6112]

I am an autocad user and recently started using inventor .. I am far from where I want to be with it but trying to find good quality tutorials I can definitely say you got some amazing staff . really love your job . Thank you

[@carbon273]

I love the fact that you play music in the background. It makes what you’re teaching more epic than it is. It’s also somehow more immersive for my learning.

[@Neil3D]

You're definitely in the minority there though! That's exactly how I was hoping it would feel, but LOADS of people complained that it was too loud and distracting so I had to stop it

[@HealthMec]

thank you, one of the best tutorials out there.

[@idaliareyes326]

I was looking this kind of example. It's great!

[@mateuszprusinowski8740]

Simple, yet I had never come up with how to do it. Great!

[@ivanllopis5882]

This has been just lovely!

[@StuartZiane]

Outstanding! Exactly what I was after. Thanks so much!

[@christophercassar718]

Awesome, showed me exactly how to do what I was after. Absolute Champion.

[@heavystuff1777]

Epic :) tips, music, everything

[@chris-non-voter]

Great as always. Thanks.

[@grzeslaw-]

genius, this guide is awsome

[@dgunes95]

Great tutorial, thanks!

[@johnwelsh2462]

ive mastered the coil and its so easy when you know how :) thanks but a point to mention is the diameter of the coil affects the amount of travel it can perform I discovered

[@GentlemanNr1]

Great tutorial helped me out a lot :)

[@ibrahimabdurrahman16]

fantastic ,proffesional , magical explaining thank you very much for your effort

[@janschneidereit3144]

really helpful mate thats one of those things that don't explain themselfs ^^

[@abdolovecar]

Awesome, Great and Amazing Thanks so much :)

[@cartaun5276]

Thumbs up mate, very well explained

[@raydavis2904]

Learn something new everyday. Making an adaptive spring was already known to me, but that "copy object" wasn't. Cha-ching!

[@hcool5691]

YOU ARE GOOD. CONGRATULATIONS!

[@pasalavenkatasatish7027]

thanks for ur help..its great

[@jorgito999]

Thanks, that is awesome. Do you have a way to make it work when you change the height of the spring through positional representations?

[@DrTexx]

Best tutor ever

[@unimog1400]

extremely cool - and fast

[@nanoprehistoric]

Thank you!

[@AbdulKarim-hp4rk]

Your sir, are amazing!

[@SqueakyNeb]

That shock absorber is probably for an RC car :D

[@funyvooo]

Thank you 👍🙏

[@evocaeden2932]

Simple enough in the end. Thanks for this, really helpful. Background music a bit loud though, drowned you out at one or two instances.

[@KellHouk]

Hello from Texas! That was perfect and exactly what I've been trying to do. Thanks for sharing that (music a bit loud though, hard to hear what you were saying at times). Any thoughts on animating a diaphragm along with a spring? take care!

[@kylewilkinson5716]

Do you have any suggestions for an adaptive extension spring between two spring studs?

[@ceebowone]

I have spent hours looking for a tutorial on coils and could never get mine to work until i found this. As he said, if you don't define the height of the spring correctly, it wont work.

[@the_k2tv._486]

Nice video... Can make dynamic simulation of spring door

[@hm94goal]

thanks alot...u saved me for I have a project for college any how can I make the same effect using compression tool?

[@cak4indian]

Hi TFI, is there an easy way to draw tube sheet of a heat exchanger...?

[@alexvessey-macpherson9565]

Awesome dude!! Something I've wanted to do this for ages. A quick question though....If i do exactly what you have done and then I add that assembly to another assembly of the rest of the suspension that that shock works with, if i then drive it as you did will it move all the rest of the components of the assembly it's part of? Sorry if that doesn't make much sense...you know me lol. Cheers,Alex :-)

[@jazzGT]

Can you elaborate on flat and transition angles for coils please? would deeply appreciate it.

[@tanscadcad4215]

Thanks for the video. Could you please make run this constrains animate in inventor studio.

[@kevinelliott5478]

TFI, your videos have helped me do some wild stuff in Inventor that I didn't know could be done before so I wanna thank you for that. I have a question on this one. I have a valve that has 4 springs in it (2 pairs of identical springs). The adaptivity worked no problem. I set all of the driving constraint dimensions using parameters. Once I go to animate the functionality of the valve in Studio, the spring adaptivity stops automatically working and I have to phyiscally drag on the spring to get it to update. Any quick thoughts on what might be causing it?

[@dharmarajkrishnamoorthy6683]

Hi i want to add both compression and oscillating motion to the spring. One end of spring is fixed and for other end i want to give both compression and oscillating motion. can you help me out.

[@wlcike]

Good video... also WoW player spotted

[@shimjithkk]

nice and informative tutorial, can u tell me how to make rope winding in a rope drum

[@JamesLenane]

Your like an Inventor ninja=)I have done this but your way was a bit quicker than mine,nice job keep up the good work,just gets confusing at times as I jump from Inv to Solidworks and the drive constraint is a great tool to have but some people dont appreciate it untill they can to another system,pluses and minuses in them all,take it easy

[@PauliePizza]

Does sw have the option to work directly on an assembly like he does here. .

[@JamesLenane]

Sw is a different workflow to this from my experience so far but I could be told different,I can create a moving spring in solidworks but never tried a top down work flow with other parts,beginning to apprecite Inventor Paulie

[@PauliePizza]

James Lenane is that what to down means. . Yes I'm appreciating inventor. .sw should have this option

[@alppad9354]

great tutorial... i also liked the background music!

[@Diga6ft]

Your tutorial is Great and very easy to understand. As I am a new comer to Inventor, I cannot make the spring goes up and down. Before you make the coli, you show that the Shock ab moves up and down. How to do that?

[@ainguyen7350]

Can you make a video to show how to draw some part of washing machine like drum, washer suspension spring, absorber... I really need you help

[@plcpro7543]

Mate, just become a subscribed member. $5 a month is worth what I have learned from you. I am a high school teacher and trying to teach my students how to make a spring move, but, I can not get it to move. I did everything exactly as you did and tried about 15 times but it still will not move. Any hints? I really want to teach my students how to make this work. I appreciate any hints. Thanks!!

[@vaseknovak1272]

Hello, thank you very much for your video. But I have a problem. When I create spring a try to move with object that compress the spring a can't moved at all. Does anybody know what is wrong? Thank you so much.

[@mikemarch2503]

When I drive the constraint, the bodies move and the spring compresses. However, it will not reverse. Suggestions?

[@elevation62]

has anyone know how to animate a flat spiral spring...I cant figure out how to make the angle constraint adaptive

[@victor15002]

When using drive, the spring goes along, but it resets to original position as soon as the mouse clicks again...

[@lucaslauri5240]

Great video! Hello from Brazil

[@Neil3D]

Hello Brazil from the Great Britain!

[@marktommis6043]

Quick Question - Will this approach work with Position Reps?

[@Dagh1]

Mine animates, but will not respect positional representations. Is there any solution to that?

[@romank5581]

I was trying to use this trick when building a camshaft-valve-spring transitional constraint assembly and nothing happened and the spring was not moving after the valve. I presume this trick is only feasible for those two constraint examples shown.

[@edvijo]

I have done this succesfully, following your steps in the past but currently I'm having troubles. It creates two flush constraints of the associative surfaces with the original faces so the assambly is fully constrained. So, I have to supress one of the constraints, move the part that compress the spring, and then un-supress the constraint (and when I do that, the coil is inmediately compressed/elongated)

[@edvijo]

Actually, I think i know what the problem is but I can't solve it. The associative surfaces are not visible (therefore I did not create the work points on them) even when the visibility is enabled. I cannot make them acually visible

[@23chaos23]

thats all cool and all but how do you do it with a realistic spring like the ones generated with the compression spring feature in the design tab when in assembly view? i would like to use a spring that has the tighter coils at the ends with the flush coil termination. but cant find a way to drive it

[@Neil3D]

Yea this was a very simplistic spring, I know what you mean. I'll have a think but as far as I know it's highly unlikely the spring from the Design Tab spring generator will be able to animate. If you open a spring from that, there is no 'height' or 'length', it's built up using bits & pieces of features generated from the original calc sheet. I've never tried to animate one of those because of that, but I'll have a dig around.

[@23chaos23]

cheers, ill just have to make do with the end compression feature in the coil creation menu. next i have to drive an anti rotation scissor hinge on the 2 parts of a piston. im working on a RC model SR-71 blackbird, currently designing the main landing gear assembly

[@wesco123]

Epic! Purely Epic!! What a day in which we live! And what geniuses are among us within software development in the ever so heralded halls of Autodesk the World over. Praises to ALL whose minds are so profoundly large and ingeniously mighty in every 3D way!

[@davidrobinson8224]

Hi,I'm new to your video's and I must say they are dam good at explaining things. This spring idea will work well for a spring bolt in my assemblies, what I would really like to do is make a compression spring work. Picture a vertical ramp on a trailer that has a fixed vertical bit through an eye bolt at the bottom and long vertical bit on the side. When the ramp folds down I want the spring to work in that fashion any help would be appreciated.

[@beauvanleersum656]

It don't work for me. My coil don't move. Do you have an solution?

[@thedelig1312]

Man, I just love the music !! :D

[@simonbrum2186]

Thanks! Can you also maje a tutorial for adaptative curve spring ? Thanks a lot

[@Neil3D]

Simon Brum When you say adaptive curve spring, in idiot terms, is that just going to be a bendy spring which is adaptive to whatever is driving the top and bottom location of the spring? Like a slinky? What environment will this be in?

[@Neil3D]

Simon Brum All done and dusted, just for you sir! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqaYpGmKjMZ4n8k

[@paulvanwyk6924]

Great content, thanks. Please leave the Lord's name out of your videos

[@annalaurakayser7015]

When I create a new part it goes directly to sketchmode. Which means I can't continue from 1:37. Any advice as to what I'm doing wrong?

[@annalaurakayser7015]

Ps. I'm using the 2016 version

[@robialmaynaufalmahdy5420]

You made "how bow dah" phrase cool before it mainstreams

[@alexbar10]

This is a great video, but i tried it just now and now i cant move my two parts

[@Neil3D]

Alex Baraban Errm, no way I can really tell what's going on! If any one of the steps is done slightly wrong it can send it all off. Is your assembly within another assembly? If so, try right clicking on it in the browser and making it flexible?

[@riezmanhakimi6306]

i want to be a pro like you . please teach me 😳

[@riezmanhakimi6306]

i want to be a pro like you . please teach me

[@tribustools4299]

I think I need some kind of solution that is a combination of Contact Solver, Driven Dimensions like shown in this video, and the Inventor Presenter environment. Neil, I wonder if you would care to collaborate on something like that? Let me know if you are interested.

[@jdrawlinson10]

Could you reduce the Background music volume?

[@Neil3D]

Not on a 4 year old video no, music has been completely removed from every Cad video done in the last 3 years though

[@keithyakouboff8755]

Music's a little distracting bro.

[@TheChuvochek]

Ну... какгрица, фенькю вэримач

[@paulbooker3405]

turn off the background music

[@raydavis2904]

It is relatively loud.

[@natashahill6479]

Music is unnecessary, extremely distracting, and almost drowns out speakers. If you want music, turn it way way down.

[@riezmanhakimi6306]

i want to be a pro like you . please teach me 😳