MDTools requires a planar face to insert a cavity. Alternatively,
to insert a cavity you need to create a planar face on
the cylindrical manifold.
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To model a cylindrical manifold with MDTools:
- Create a cylindrical extrude feature using Inventor.
- Create a planar face for inserting a cavity:
- Create a work plane, which is tangent to the point
on the face where you want to place the cavity, on the
cylindrical face using Inventor.
- Create a sketch on the newly created plane and add
a circle with diameter equal to10 mm.
- Create an extrude cut of 1 mm depth using the newly
created circle.
- Insert a cavity on the planar face created by extruding
the circle.
Note: Some of the commands, such as Move
Cavity or Connect to Cavity will not work properly with cylindrical
manifolds.
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MDTools supports drawing views created manually if they
are named correctly and not rotated.
If they are rotated, then sketch features like Machining
IDs, Origin & Axes, Face Names, and Dimensioning etc.
will not be created or oriented correctly with respect to
the individual views.
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Use the MDTools Shrink Wrap option to hide plugs and angled
holes in the manifold 2D drawing.
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Ensure that the Read Only setting is unchecked in the MDTools
Cavity Library Installation folder and MDTools Settings folder:
Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VEST\MDTools
730.
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The cause can be the stress analysis module of Inventor.
Try and unload this add-in.
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Disable Simulation Modules from the Inventor Add-ins.
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When cavities with the same diameter are connected to the
center of another cavity, and convert manifold is selected,
the cavity disappears.
This is a bug in Autodesk Inventor.
To avoid this, slightly increase the depth of the connecting
cavities.
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When a footprint is added in the Virtual Cavity mode of
MDTools, then the cavities in the footprint will not extrude.
The footprint has to be added in the Feature mode in order
to extrude the cavities.
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To improve the performance of Inventor refer the following
page on the Autodesk website: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?siteID=123112&id=5310997&linkID=4183228
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Manually open the port UDP 6001.
- Click Control Panel > Windows Firewall > Exceptions.
- Add port UDP 6001 on the machine that has the MDTools
License Server.
- Add Inventor to the list of Exceptions on the client
machine.
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Some suggestions to improve MDTools-Inventor performance.
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- System Requirements for both MDTools and Inventor:
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Processor: Intel P4 Machine ( At least 3.6 GHZ processor)
Memory: Min 2 GB RAM
Graphics Memory: At least 128 MB
Hard Drive Space: 2X the Memory of HD Space. So at least
4GB+
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For MDTools;
http://www.vestusa.com/MDTools730ServicePacks.asp
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- Also make sure that when you begin the process of designing
the block in MDTools you are in the Virtual Cavity Mode as
this causes reduced memory consumption.
Convert the manifold to the Feature based mode only after
the design is complete.
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Perhaps the following services cause this issue to occur:
Lab View, National Instruments Domain Service, Lookout Citadel
Server, or National Instruments Variable Engine.
Stop these services, start Sentinel, and then restart these
services.
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Open UDP 6001 port using your Windows Firewall exceptions.
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It is a problem for the license to work over a local area
network.
Manually open the port UDP 6001 from the Control Panel.
Go to Control Panel > Windows Firewall > Exceptions and add
the port UDP 6001 on the machine that has the MDTools License
Server.
Also add Inventor to the list of Exceptions on the client
machine.
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Please update your Sentinel driver to version 7.4.2.
Sentinel
Protection Installer 7.4.2.zip (4.89MB)
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