Carbonated
Bioengineer
Hi all,
I'm trying to build a small enclosure that has two gas cylinders slowing down the door.
Problem is, I am having trouble constraining the two components, whose constraints seem to interfere with eachother, despite the assembly specifying the component as having two instances ("component x 2").
I have grabbed the prt files from the seller since they offered them, they're a standard assembly with constrained (sliding) components.
Placing the subassembly within the main assembly and constraining it doesn't pose a problem, I do however need to enable position override to let the gas cylinder be driven by the door movement. No issue thus far.
The problem lies within creating a second instance of the subassembly and constraining it, since the concentric constraints seem to interfere between the two instances, which are supposed to be separate and do not exceed the gas cylinder travel distance.
I have tried making the component ungrouped from the other, generating the second component using a non-associative component pattern, to no avail.
My guess is the constraints within the subassembly do not accept being position overrided by two components simultaneously.
What is the optimal way to use multiple subassembly components within a parent assembly and let them be driven by another component? It'd be a shame to have to create a dedicated named component copy just to get around this problem.


Thanks in advance,
I'm trying to build a small enclosure that has two gas cylinders slowing down the door.
Problem is, I am having trouble constraining the two components, whose constraints seem to interfere with eachother, despite the assembly specifying the component as having two instances ("component x 2").
I have grabbed the prt files from the seller since they offered them, they're a standard assembly with constrained (sliding) components.
Placing the subassembly within the main assembly and constraining it doesn't pose a problem, I do however need to enable position override to let the gas cylinder be driven by the door movement. No issue thus far.
The problem lies within creating a second instance of the subassembly and constraining it, since the concentric constraints seem to interfere between the two instances, which are supposed to be separate and do not exceed the gas cylinder travel distance.
I have tried making the component ungrouped from the other, generating the second component using a non-associative component pattern, to no avail.
My guess is the constraints within the subassembly do not accept being position overrided by two components simultaneously.
What is the optimal way to use multiple subassembly components within a parent assembly and let them be driven by another component? It'd be a shame to have to create a dedicated named component copy just to get around this problem.


Thanks in advance,