Views of a Mechanism 1

[swalton44]

I have created a mechanism and it moves and it is nice. I would like to illustrate the range of travel on my drawing, is there a way I can show the mechanism in two different positions in two seperate views, and keep the views parametric?

Cheers.

 

[Hora]

Use family tables.

-Hora.

 

[prohow]

For a mechanism - create snapshots of the mechanism (when you define different stages by clicking on the camera icon).

In drawing mode, create a new view, and make it an exploded view. Select the view state you saved in mechanism... it will show the assembly in the position.

 

[swalton44]

Cheers for the responces guys. I am not sure how to make a family table work with a mechanism as I cannot select the values to alter the position of the model.
The snapshot worked well, I would never have thought of using exploded state!

 

[3dlogix]

You can assemble the parts twice, both in the min and max positions, make a simp rep that shows either one or the other positions and then show the view of one rep and the view of the other rep.

steve

http://www.3dlogix.com