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[#1]

It is the same for all standards, you can only pick one o-ring, you change the size dynamically.

I agree it is a little tricky but possible. It will cut the groove for you.

Give it a try.

Jon

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Yes, I've experimented now and found this to be true.  It's a little strange to have the list available to you and not be able to use it at all.

When I was trying to do this, I was creating a seal on a fairly large diameter, so I was zoomed out quite a ways.  So the little tiny oring comes in and the glyphs are so small that I wouldn't have thought to zoom way in and have to drag it all the way out.

Nonetheless, I'm glad to have the issue resolved.

Any provisions coming up for dovetail and/or half-dovetail grooves?  Turns out, I rarely ever use a "regular" groove because we need the seal retention provided by the dovetail.

Thank you all for your help!

[#3]

I think over the last couple of releases we have not seen a lot of change in the O-Ring section of the Design Acceleerators. I can open a Wish on your behalf, hopefully development will review the wish.

Jon

[#4]

I just messed with this for the first time.  I wouldn't consider it goofy, it downright SUCKS to drag the handles.  If I actually had some control over the handles it would be great to size as you drag, but I could never get it to just stop on the dimension I wanted without lots of trial and error.  Have both capabilities would be good, drag handles or specify from a list of all available sizes.  So enhancement (more like fix it) would be nice for the axial selection.

--Scott

[#5]

AH, here's an improvment.  Doesn't tell you, but you can double click the drag arrow to select a size from the drop down, and it looks like the drop down provides all available sizes!

--Scott