Saving a generic hose section to use on predefined trajectories in various assemblies
Saving a generic hose section to use on predefined trajectories in various assemblies
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Is there any way to do this? I use a lot of crushproof vacuum hose in my designs, and the hose has the counter threaded spiral ribs on it. I would like to be able to save this section, this way when I make an assembly in which I need a hose I could define the trajectory in the assembly and apply the section to it to make the hose look as it should instead of smooth. Can you do helical sweeps over contoured trajectories instead of straight or jagged ones? And would there be a way to apply this section and then save it as a suffix so I can have several iterations of the same hose IE Primarysubasmname_hose_1 and have it contain parameters such as diameter and length?





RE: Saving a generic hose section to use on predefined trajectories in various assemblies
They have .sec extension.
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RE: Saving a generic hose section to use on predefined trajectories in various assemblies
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RE: Saving a generic hose section to use on predefined trajectories in various assemblies
http://learningexchange.ptc.com/tutorial/2530/crea...
It is an awkward way of doing it but it can be made to work. I agree with dgallup and would recommend using UDF's as they are the most powerful and the most customizable.