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Jason L ©
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Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:10 pm Post subject:
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I have a stack of belleville washers and want to control the height as a
flexible component. I need a dimension to drive it but want to enter in a
parameter (example: compressed = 7.0 ) as the variable that drives the
flexible dimension. How can this be done?
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Jason L ©
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Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:10 pm Post subject:
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that way I only have to change the parameter number and my whole stack in
the assembly updates. |
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David Janes
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Sat Sep 17, 2005 4:10 pm Post subject:
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I think it might work if you went into 'Tools>Relations' and put in something like
d4=Compressed where d4 is the controlling dimension. Then you could change the
parameter Compressed and have the controlling dim update. There's also a bunch of
different things you can select to make the component variable. One is parameters,
although, I don't see how this would work without somehow equating a paramter to a
dimension.
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David Janes
| Quote: | "Jason L ©" <tectranbrake@yahoo.com> wrote
I have a stack of belleville washers and want to control the height as a
flexible component. I need a dimension to drive it but want to enter in a
parameter (example: compressed = 7.0 ) as the variable that drives the flexible
dimension. How can this be done?
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Jason L ©
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Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:10 pm Post subject:
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yeah, but then wouldn't changes to d4 modify my drawing even if it was
selected as a flexible dimension after the relation was added. I did find a
solution to my problem though, I selected the first spring washer overall
height dimesion as flexible and modified it to its working height. Then I
made the distance between two datums (equalling the overall height) on the
other washers flexible based on the distance of the first spring. Now I just
have to update the flexible dim for the first spring and it changes the
working stack height of them all.
"David Janes" <djanes@cox.net.inseliges> wrote in message
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| Quote: | I think it might work if you went into 'Tools>Relations' and put in
something like d4=Compressed where d4 is the controlling dimension. Then
you could change the parameter Compressed and have the controlling dim
update. There's also a bunch of different things you can select to make the
component variable. One is parameters, although, I don't see how this would
work without somehow equating a paramter to a dimension.
--
David Janes
"Jason L ©" <tectranbrake@yahoo.com> wrote
I have a stack of belleville washers and want to control the height as a
flexible component. I need a dimension to drive it but want to enter in a
parameter (example: compressed = 7.0 ) as the variable that drives the
flexible dimension. How can this be done?
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