"Flexing" plastic latches and living hinges 1

[davidinindy]

I have an assembly for a container that consists of to halves. I want to be able to open and close it using physical dynamics to check clearances, however in order to get past the latch, I have to turn physical dynamics off, then close it just past the latches, then turn it back on.
Is there a way to either make the latches flex, like they will do in the actual part, or to make solidworks just ignore the latches so I can check the interlocking lip of the container.
On another note, is there a way to make a living hinge that will act like it's supposed to in solidworks?

 

[Standing]

davidinindy,
Give the hinge part an angle control. Then create configurations with different angles. We do this for our hinges in an assembly, which is not a living hinge.


Bradley

 

[crjones]

We use gear mates in the advanced options of 'mates' to check rotor mesh to have things move relative to each other. You could also establish a mate along the edge of two halves fix one half and use the rotate command in assemblies to move it around the edge mate.

 

[TheTick]

This may be a good application for a multibody part. Model the moving psrts as bodies separate from the main body. Control the moving body positon with a Move/Copy, connect the bodies with a loft for the living hinge, and then Combine into a final single body.

"When everyone is thinking alike, no one is thinking very much." --Eckhard Schwarz (1930--2004)

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[SBaugh]

Anytime I have seen a living hinge was with a thin Sketch profile controlled by an Angular dimension. You can change that dimension right there in the part and do a rebuild to get the model to update. I have found this to work the best so far.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

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