Autodesk Inventor Hurricane - part I

Hawker Hurricane - WWII Royal Air Force fighter. I'm intending to play with animation some more, when I finish this, however it's pretty far from being complete. Still not sure how much detail do I want, but it already needs some minor tweaks in tail section and fuselage aswell, so I guess I'll do whatever will satisfy me and will be able to animate. The very next things in my list are ailerons since I'm obviously going to need them ;-).

Autodesk Inventor radial engine

Radial engine made just to show how it works. This is my very first animation and it took me suprisingly long to figure out how it's done in autodesk animation studio. I've added a propeller and a simple connecting rod later.

pictures:

 

and the video:

Autodesk Inventor Shelf

This is something neither aero non mechanical actually, but I've decided to drop it here anyway. It's a project I had to make for school - shelf containing both welded and bolted connections and as much standardized parts as possible. I also had to use specified dimensions and part shapes.

renders:

and some drawings:

Autodesk Inventor F1 frontwing

This is one of the biggest things I've made by now. F1 wing based on Ferrari's 2011 wing for Spanish GP. I've been using only one picture for help and there was some guessing, but fortunately those wings are not that different, so it should be more or less accurate. I'd love to run some CFD on this, however I don't have hardware powerfull enough, and right now i pretty much don't have CFD sowtware, not mentioning my poor meshing skills, so that's gonna have to wait. I'm actually more curious of the airflow around the tyres, than downforce level. Oh, and the nose is totally random.

 renders:

and inventor shot:

Autodesk Inventor R4 engine

Since my university allows me to get free educational license, I'm mainly using Autodesk Inventor software and most of my work is done with this environment. This is one of my first models I've made some time ago. It's a simple R4 engine design, made to get myself familliar with assembling and placing constrains correctly. It's based on Catia tutorial that can be found on youtube somewhere.

rendered image:

and a screenshot directly from inventor