A new pneumatic press system created with Inventor Richard A. Chilton, senior manufacturing engineer at Leatherman Tool Group, designs and implements new equipment to assist in the manufacture of the Leatherman Multi-purpose folding tools, and trouble shooting existing equipment. We are able to accommodate those challenges by starting at the computer - with the drawing program. The better the drawing program, the easier the end products are to conceive. The same goes for machine design. If the drawing package is an intuitive one, such as the Inventor software from Autodesk, design options are very easy to introduce, evaluate, and steer through the process of elimination while, moving forward toward the end design.
Inventor allows, through assembly constraints, motion to be applied to the moving components.
Each component moves through its respective cycle while maintaining its constrained position. We no longer have to move each component independently to achieve the final, end cycle, position. We can now watch the system components interact simultaneously with each other. He also says that the Adaptive Technology that is unique to Autodesk Inventor software is another very useful feature. The capability allows component parts to be designed to fit another particular component, or assembly, and, not only maintain its position relative to that component, but be sized to fit, automatically, with specific tolerances introduced by the designer.