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Routing Part Creation

Routing Part Creation

Routing Part Creation

(OP)
Hi Everyone, I'm working with sw2005 routing toolbox, trying to create some tube fittings (actually an elbow). However I am required for this project to use MilSpec Parts, and I can't seem to make solidworks create the correct geometry using the sweep feature required by the routing toolbox to make routing parts. Because of the way the required bend radius is handled in solidworks, the part results in invalid geometry. Has anyone had sucess at creating MS parts for tube routing?

Thanks,

WC

RE: Routing Part Creation

Are you familiar with sweeps generally?  If your path radius is so tight that the geometry on the inside of the path radius collides with itself (profile passes path radius center), you have an impossible logical problem.  So is this a sweep problem in this regard, or is it something with the routing module?


Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions.

RE: Routing Part Creation

(OP)
Yes, it has to do with the path radius.

According to MS21908, for a 90 deg elbow, the radius of the curvature of the path must be (for a -24 part)15/16 in, however, with this part the OD nom is 1.5 in. I'd really like to make this part using extrude features because it creates the correct geometry, howver the routing tools do not want to recognise this method to give valid configurations (or at least I can't get it to).

Thanks,

WC

RE: Routing Part Creation

So if you need to create the part with two extrusions at a 45-degree join line, is the problem that the routing will not use the elbow you create with that method?


Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions.

RE: Routing Part Creation

(OP)
Yes, that seem to be the problem. I put the routing points in the correct place, based on the extrusion, but the routing toolbox wants to auto create the correct configs, and using this method, it wont recognize my configurations, and wont do anything.

RE: Routing Part Creation

Unfortunately, I don't have the routing package and cannot trouble-shoot it with you.  I would think there would be a work-around for this.


Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions.

RE: Routing Part Creation

(OP)
Jeff,

Thanks for your help... I am now doing this without the routing toolbox... the old fash. way, with 3-d Sketches... I gotta tell you, that routing package is such a headache, hopefully it will be much more intuitive in 2006. It works well now for elect's only, the piping and tubing features are TERRIBLE!

Anyway, thanks again....

-wc

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