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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
the part itself is a rivet which uses a revolved sketch. I dimensioned the diameter using a centerline, but, after the revolve the dimension was reduced in the sketch to a radius by SW. the length was never in the model. The finished length is not the purchased length. eg. i want to buy a 1/8 x...
to answer your question directly.........there are several columns (parameters) that do not show up in the propery manager page.
I managed to get this file to work in the library and be selectable through property manager, however, i had to create a bogus sketch with a circle and 2 lines. I...
JHG,
Ultimately i want to put this part in the library. The file will contain a hundred configurations.
I want to use the property manager to filter the configurations and i want to select length and diameter as my filters. Neither of these parameters is a dimension in my model but, are...
I created an excel spreadsheet with all configuration information. Created the default part in SW and then created the design table "from file". I further want to use the property manager to filter the configuration list so that i can use this part in my library. the configurations come into the...
Long time inventor user thrust into the thick of Solidworks library. Could someone tell me the term i should be looking for in researching library file set up.
I am creating library files and some of these are massive. Picking the part from the library using only the configuration name is...
