Inventor Design Tutorial

February 2, 2011 By: Brian Halicki Halco Design

Using a Multi-Body Part to create Solid Bodies within a part.

With the steps provided below, this process of creating multiple bodies within a part to model a reinforced hose for
use in configurations used in air and vacuum lines.

The following steps will be to:

 Make the reinforcement wire inside a hose using the coil feature

 Extrude a tube and specify that the extrusion is a new solid

Figure 1. Reinforced Hose

Start a sketch that will set up to be use with the coil feature. This sketch describes the profile of the reinforcement
inside the hose. The axis can be a sketch that the coil will revolve around.

Figure 2. Sketch for the wire Reinforcement

Figure 3. Coil Feature Created

 Figure 4. Tube sketch Origin Sketched with the Coil

Figure 5. Extrusion Created With the New Solid Option Selected.

 Figure 6. Completed Reinforced Tube

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