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    Plane to assembly sketch?

    mflayler - that's it exactly. create a constraint betweent the cubes. open functions (Fx) and note the d# of the contraint. Create a work plane offset from cube by d#/2. you can drive the constraint for various positions.
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    Spiral Assembly Pattern?

    i had a look at your assembly and the part in question. a bit tricky to see what you want to do. where does the 51 degrees come in? It looks like you are on the right track with a spiral arrangement of holes. What is your issue here? (personally I would have created this object in another plane...
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    How to make a rope

    I know that it's possible to create the expected resulting movement of pulleys and to have the lengths of rope between pulley centers change length to accomdate the new distance, but, that's not really going to show what i want. I could show it , but, it wont tell me anything. I have a...
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    How to make a rope

    Really a cable. tiny aircraft cable. I want to wrap the cable from a fixed end (on a moveable assy) thru a series of pulleys and intermediate surfaces to the business end where a linear force will be applied to operate the gizmo. So a flexible cable of fixed length that can move the tip of the...
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    can a magnifiying effect be achieved in inv2010?

    I've modelled a pair of lens' from a desk magnifier set. The lens' are the approx. shape and size and the material set for glass (polycarbonate looks better)so they look fine in the model, but, wouldn't it be COOL if during an animation during a pan over the focal point, that the image was...
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    Process for creating a Wire Wound Toroid???

    i've done this a few times. And the pictures WERE pretty! They also showed how tight the assembly was with the wound wire. Start with a straight wire the correct thickness tangent to the coil(at the bottom).Use a sweep and a 3d line to approximate one revolution then use a circular array to...
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    can we simulate GRAVITY in inventor?

    I am about to take on a project where i would like several of the components to act as if in a gravity situation, falling at the appropriate time. If i had a ball in a tube and a plate blocking the tube I could constrain the ball to the centerline of the tube and tangent to the plate but, i...
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    STILL trying to sort, Can dimensions be text??

    sorry. i am referring to the configuration property manager under the configuration tab. It is an option when right clicking on the filename. I have 1500 configurations in this file. When i insert the part into an assembly from the design library....i can sort by body size(numerical value)...
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    STILL trying to sort, Can dimensions be text??

    I can't believe that SW will only allow sketch data as variables for Propery Manager.This wouldn't even be an issue in Inventor as you could sort by ANYTHING. I have a very large table of Mil-Spec parts. Of those half are readily available from commercial vendors, the others require long lead...
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    equations in part template

    I want to use the properties from the configuration dropdown in my bom. Description here is $DESCRIPTION, and part number is $PART NUMBER. When creating/modifying a BOM, $DESCRIPTION is not available as an option. In the BOM SW uses $PRP@DESCRIPTION from the configuration specific properties...
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    flathead screw mates - anti-flip

    I have been filling a library with fasteners lately.One of the latest is a flathead fastener. I thought that by using reference mates in the part that i would be able to get around the fact that whenever you drop a flathead onto a c'sunk hole it always goes in upside down and you have to flip...
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    Configuration Property Manager - not updating??

    here's the file. the default at this time is a 2-56 SHCS. The configuration property manager is set up for SIZE and LENGTH. Note: size is screw size 2,4,6,8,10, etc. not diameter and length is a straight forward dimension in sketch 1. Size comes from a bogus sketch with a dimensioned circle...
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    Configuration Property Manager - not updating??

    I have a Design Table which works fine. I created a bogus sketch with a circle dimensioned as variable "size@sketch3". Sketch is turned off.(the only reason this is here is because SW can't sort by something that is not in a sketch.) There is a "length" variable in sketch 1. When i insert a part...
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    Adding custom property to design table

    I tried the config specific property (TICK) and although it does show up on the spreadsheet when i run the configuration property manager i get the message, ' this file does not contain features that can be used with configuration property manager". I am filling up the library. I DO NOT want to...
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    Adding custom property to design table

    I guess my question should have been " how to add a manageable property to design table". I am ok with the diameter and length. What i want to know is when i add a property to the design table, how can i use that property as a filter. The diameter and length are now dimensions in a bogus sketch...
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