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Hello All.
I know this has been an issue for some time now, but I'm trying to find a solution for creating a "Flexible" hose which will adapt when added to an assembly.
In the attached picture you find the below steps as I have performed thus far, as well as the behavior the deformable hose is showing when added to an assembly.
Steps taken to create the Hose Assembly.
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[li]Create hose assembly with two connectors (each having a routing port)[/li]
[li]Create Spline path with length constraint between connectors ports (on the right side of the picture the settings used to create the spline path)[/li]
The start and end points of the spline have an extension of 50 mm to keep that part straight.
[li]Create deformable part using the sweep generated by the mechanical Routing stock[/li]
[li]Add hose assembly to main assembly and constrain 1 end as shown in picture step 2[/li]
[li]Constrain other connector which shows deforming is working (picture step 3)[/li]
[li]Redefine constraints for the second connector to a different position in the main assembly.[/li]
Hose gets deformed but there is no control over the direction of the spline path resulting in conflicting geometry.
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Is there any clever way to have control over the Spline which gets recreated when deforming the hose?
Also, I would like to have some kind of constraint over the resulting radii on the path.
As you can see in the pictures the result is a very sharp bend in the hose. I would like to prevent that from happening.
Ronald van den Broek
Mechanical Engineer
Cad Environment Coordinator
Wärtsilä, Propulsion Services
NX8.5.3 / TC9.1.2
HPZ420 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz, 32 Gb Win7 64B
Nvidea Quadro4000 2048MB DDR5
HP EliteBook 8570W Intel(R) Core(TM) I7-3740QM CPU @ 2.70GHz, 16Gb Win7 64B
I know this has been an issue for some time now, but I'm trying to find a solution for creating a "Flexible" hose which will adapt when added to an assembly.
In the attached picture you find the below steps as I have performed thus far, as well as the behavior the deformable hose is showing when added to an assembly.
Steps taken to create the Hose Assembly.
[ol 1]
[li]Create hose assembly with two connectors (each having a routing port)[/li]
[li]Create Spline path with length constraint between connectors ports (on the right side of the picture the settings used to create the spline path)[/li]
The start and end points of the spline have an extension of 50 mm to keep that part straight.
[li]Create deformable part using the sweep generated by the mechanical Routing stock[/li]
[li]Add hose assembly to main assembly and constrain 1 end as shown in picture step 2[/li]
[li]Constrain other connector which shows deforming is working (picture step 3)[/li]
[li]Redefine constraints for the second connector to a different position in the main assembly.[/li]
Hose gets deformed but there is no control over the direction of the spline path resulting in conflicting geometry.
[/ol]
Is there any clever way to have control over the Spline which gets recreated when deforming the hose?
Also, I would like to have some kind of constraint over the resulting radii on the path.
As you can see in the pictures the result is a very sharp bend in the hose. I would like to prevent that from happening.
Ronald van den Broek
Mechanical Engineer
Cad Environment Coordinator
Wärtsilä, Propulsion Services
NX8.5.3 / TC9.1.2
HPZ420 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz, 32 Gb Win7 64B
Nvidea Quadro4000 2048MB DDR5
HP EliteBook 8570W Intel(R) Core(TM) I7-3740QM CPU @ 2.70GHz, 16Gb Win7 64B
