CAD Forum - tips, tricks, discussion and utilities for AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit and other Autodesk products [www.cadforum.cz]
CZ | EN | DE
Login or
registration
  Visitors: 5737
Plex.Earth connects AutoCAD and Google Earth

CAD tip CAD tip # 4078:

   
Question CAD 
 %  platform  category 
Q - question

Rubik's cube in Inventor.

A - answer On the Download page you can download a complete 3D assembly of the popular puzzle Rubik's cube created in Autodesk Inventor 9. The Rubik's cube model contains all neccessary constraints so you can manipulate it like the real puzzle.

Don't forget to Activate the Contact Solver (Tools menu). Then you can rotate the individual 'levels' of the cube either using the "Drive_me" constraints (use the Drive constraint funtion on mouse rt-click, leave the small step in the control dialog), or freely - so that you switch off the above mentioned constrain (mouse rt-click) and then move the levels with your mouse (as with the real-life cube you should exactly finish the 90° step rotation, otherwise your cube will fall apart).

You can hardly break the world record in solving the 'Cube' puzzle by hand - currently 16.5 sec., but e.g. using Inventor VBA macros opens interesting options for machine-solving of this puzzle, which can take 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 configurations in total...

model author: Sonja Ahrens

Inventor9
100% *  CAD 
18.10.2004    26459×  
Prices - CAD eShop:
applies to: Inventor 9 ·

See also:
Tip 13963:Sum of pipe element lengths in Inventor (iLogic).
Tip 13824:How to export OBJ including materials, textures from Inventor?
Tip 13699:How to synchronize camera orientation in different Inventor views?
Tip 13592:Searching in the Inventor assembly model.
Tip 13280:How to publish models in USD/USDz format from Inventor?


Back   All CAD Tips



Have we helped you? If you want to support the CAD Forum web service, consider buying one of our CAD applications, or our custom software development offerings, or donating via PayPal (see above). You may also add a link to your web - like this "fan" link: CAD Forum - tips, utilities, blocks for Autodesk products
CAD:    OS:    Categ: 
Text:  FAQ glossary   



Featuring:
Use Google Earth images in your AutoCAD projects with the Plex.Earth Tools More info


Please use these tips at your own risk.
Arkance Systems is not responsible for possible problems that may occur as a result of using any of these tips.
TOPlist