Autodesk Inventor: Cherry MX Blue

graboy · 21 Jul 2012, 20:41

Have been working on this the past few weeks, it's not totally complete yet, either. I still have to create the switch housing, and fix a few quirks with the assembly. The part files and a few screenshots are attached. My hope with providing the files is so that someone can improve on them. I am currently operating on the "evaluation demo" of Inventor, so I probably won't be able to work on them again once it has expired. Let me know what you think!

damorgue · 21 Jul 2012, 20:55

http://deskthority.net/keyboards-f2/des ... t3474.html

Edit: My homemade 3D scans can't get those small details, great work. Accurately measuring those to get them right is very difficult. How accurate is it?

graboy · 21 Jul 2012, 21:11

damorgue wrote:http://deskthority.net/keyboards-f2/des ... t3474.html

Edit: My homemade 3D scans can't get those small details, great work. Accurately measuring those to get them right is very difficult. How accurate is it?

I wish it was more accurate, the reason I made it was more for an animation than maybe a recreation in real life. I'd like to see if I can use some of the measurements from the one you created. Also, this was the first time I have used CAD software, took a while to learn. Thanks for the link.

EDIT: To be honest, an electric caliper could have been really helpful... I measured it mostly by hand. I used photos I took, and sometimes I had to make a few estimates at some points.

damorgue · 21 Jul 2012, 21:18

I could easily animate it later for you if you want me to, with spring and all. Let me know once you have finished it.

Edit: I have a high end digital caliper, but recreating it precisely is hard even with one.

graboy · 21 Jul 2012, 21:56

Well, the problem is that literally in about an hour or so I'm leaving and not going to be at home for about a month. That's why I chose to post this today, so maybe someone could work on it, and get more accurate measurements. Otherwise, I'll get back to it when I'm home again.

damorgue · 21 Jul 2012, 21:58

Please feel free to upload it somewhere and PM me.

graboy · 21 Jul 2012, 23:50

I put a .zip in the OP.

damorgue · 22 Jul 2012, 00:56

graboy wrote:I put a .zip in the OP.

Please upload in an open format, preferably step. Thanks though

damorgue · 22 Jul 2012, 11:34

Could someone with inventor please open the files and save them in step, stl, iges or whatever format you choose that is not proprietary. Thanks in advance.