I have a experience with a SolidWorks and Sketchup. I modeled and rendered with Autodesk Inventor. I modeled a part of my potential project (Real life game with third person view). It will be 3D printed and assembled with 2 Gopro cameras, 2 Servo motors, 1/2 inch diameter aluminium pipe. I decided to using Autodesk Inventor for this assignment. because I wanted to try that I haven’t used it before. I downloaded the free student software from the autodesk website. I’m going to model a Gopro 3D mount with pan-tilt motion. there are many servo motor’s CAD model files on internet. I downloaded GoPro and servo motor models. I assembled all the file I downloaded, and modified the size to servos fit into the mount. It looked like belowīut the angle of the camera mount was limited to see downward. I needed to change the angle.įirst mistake : The biggest mistake I made was that the Gopro case was not fit in my Gopro model. I measure the size of Gopro case from the STL file I downloaded (link : ) but It was Gopro1. If I used parametric properties when I made dimensions, I could save much times. Second mistake : Gopro case cannot be assembled with Gopro because of the lens. I also needed pan-tilt mount, I downloaded similar model from “” It will be 3d printed and the design should be added hole for the bolt to be fasten well I changed design for the lens.īall joint : I made ball joint to connect aluminium pipe and camera mount. , but It was STL file so if I want to modify it, I have to convert STL file to 3D model. Mesh enabler is plugin for Inventor that makes mesh files to solid base feature or surface base feature.

I scaled the downloaded STL files with this way

Inventor addin Mesh Enabler