Connecting two bodies with a spline
Connecting two bodies with a spline
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I am making a box where a wire coming from the top side will connect to a copper bar within the box. The attached jpeg shows the box and I added two red lines to show what I want to see happen.
I was trying a 3D spline but not having much success.
I was trying a 3D spline but not having much success.
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RE: Connecting two bodies with a spline
Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
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RE: Connecting two bodies with a spline
You may also want to draw some points or construction lines at key junctions to anchor your spline.
RE: Connecting two bodies with a spline
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RE: Connecting two bodies with a spline
Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
Dan's Blog
RE: Connecting two bodies with a spline
An extruded-sweep can only be created in a part. Material cannot be added in an assy.
RE: Connecting two bodies with a spline
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
RE: Connecting two bodies with a spline
Did you create a profile sketch for it to sweep
Make sure that the profile is normal to your 3-D sketch
Make sure that profile sketch is in the part file
Check to be sure that the 3-D sketch tangent to the wire
The 3-D sketch needs to be one spline
What I have found that works best is to create an empty part file. Insert it into the model and mate it via planes to the assembly origin. Edit the part in-context and create a 3-D sketch with line for the starting point and the end point. Make those lines concentric (or lock them in place somehow) to the existing components. Create a line between the two then add sketch fillets to make it curved. Exit the sketch and go back to the part and add a plane normal to the sketch and add a profile on that plane. Sweep and you are done.
If I wanted to make it with a spline you just use a spline instead of a straight line between the start and end lines.
This has been the easiest way that I have found to make wire without using the routing software.
RE: Connecting two bodies with a spline
Artem Taturevich, CSWP
Software and Design Engineer
AMCBridge LLC
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RE: Connecting two bodies with a spline
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