Machine elements design overview

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INSTRUCTOR: After completing this lesson,

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you'll be able to recognize examples

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of Design Accelerator generated components,

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find Design Accelerator tools, understand the types of Design

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Accelerator, and properly edit or delete a Design Accelerator

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component.

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Over the next several lessons, you'll

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be creating multiple Design Accelerator generated

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components for this belt driven gear reducer.

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The initial stage is driven by an electric motor which

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drives a belt. The belt is attached through a clutch

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system to a series of gears.

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In this course, you'll be developing

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the belt, the shafts, the gears, adding bearings, and adding

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fasteners to hold the gear cover in place.

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The Design Accelerator tools are contained

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in the Design tab in Autodesk Inventor and segmented

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into various panels, fasten, frame, power transmission,

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and spring.

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Design accelerators are divided into two types.

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Generators, which will create geometry

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and add it to your model.

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These generators also include calculators,

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which will allow you to size or select standard components,

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based on engineering calculations.

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The other type of design accelerator is a calculator.

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Calculators do not generate geometry.

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But will help you select the materials,

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and define the geometry of custom components

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that you need for your machine design.

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Design accelerators also differ in the way

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that they should be edited.

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Simply deleting or double clicking

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on a design accelerator is not the correct approach.

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For example, to edit this gear, you

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hover over the gear and select Edit

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Using Design Accelerator to bring up the dialog box that

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was used to generate the gear.

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If you were to select one of the gear bodies and delete it,

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it would remove the geometry.

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But it will not properly remove any other relationships.

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Instead, use the right click menu again

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and select Delete Design Accelerator Component.

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This can be done on the screen or through the browser.

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The design accelerators are a fantastic set

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of tools for anyone doing machine design.

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I hope that you'll take the time to review the lessons to see

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examples of the most commonly used design

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accelerators at work or to try them for yourself.