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Modeling Rope in Pro/Engineer

Modeling Rope in Pro/Engineer

Modeling Rope in Pro/Engineer

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Hi All,

I'm trying to model a pulley in Pro/E.  I'm having trouble representing the rope.

Is there any way to model rope directly or through a mechanism connection?  Is there a different software that is better suited for rope?  Thanks.

Erol

RE: Modeling Rope in Pro/Engineer

Can't you create a 3D curve in assembly mode, then create a sweep from this feature in an associated part file?

There are other ways to do this, but it all depends on your exact needs of the rope.

http://www.3dlogix.com

RE: Modeling Rope in Pro/Engineer

I'm thinking you create a sketch feature like 3dlogix suggests and adding a perimiter dimension and offset for your rope.

I just saw a cool presentation on YouTube about the Belts and Chains functionality in Solid Works 2007 which was pretty impressive but it only works for closed loop belts.

Here's the link it shows the functionality at 1minute into the presentations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgHbYm_WBDE

You can do basically the same thing with a sketch and offset edge in Assembly mode.
Feat in ProE

Select Rope to create Perim

Notice Rope var Dim get smaller by 50 when 200 dimension is changed to 400. 50 = (400-200)/(4 lengths of rope).

Michael

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