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Transitional constraints

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tap90291
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‎07-31-2003 11:33 PM
‎07-31-2003 11:33 PM

Transitional constraints

I have a conveyor frame with 4" chanel sides with a 1x1 angle welded to the botom of the chanel (leg fillets tangent to the chanel flange) sitting in a vee groove caster. Will inventor allow me to use a transitionl (or other) constraint to model the motion between the caster and the angle iron guide.
If so how do I do this.

TAP
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Anonymous
in reply to: tap90291
‎08-01-2003 12:20 AM
‎08-01-2003 12:20 AM


 

This link is from todays Manufacturing Toplines for
autodesk.

 

Hope this helps

 

Mark Smith

SPX Air Gage Co.


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have a conveyor frame with 4" chanel sides with a 1x1 angle welded to the
botom of the chanel (leg fillets tangent to the chanel flange) sitting in a
vee groove caster. Will inventor allow me to use a transitionl (or other)
constraint to model the motion between the caster and the angle iron guide.

If so how do I do this.

TAP

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Anonymous
in reply to: tap90291
‎08-01-2003 07:03 AM
‎08-01-2003 07:03 AM

Not really related to transitional constraints,
but...

 

I read that earlier, and something towards the end
of the article caught my attention:

 

In the last bullet, Bill Fane says, "To see
how I did this, turn on the visibility of the Driver part. Note that if you also
turn off Enabled, the part does not contribute to mass calculations, but its
constraints are still active."

 

This has not been my experience (but oh, how I wish
it were!)...  Just to make sure, I went into an assembly and checked the
mass.  Then, I disabled a part and checked the mass.  They were the
same - the only way I have been able to keep a part from contributing to the
mass calculations is to set it as reference.

 

So, does disabling a part supposed to truly disable
it from mass calculations, or was this just a goof on the author's
part?

 

-Brian

 

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style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">


 

This link is from todays Manufacturing Toplines
for autodesk.

 
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Anonymous
in reply to: tap90291
‎08-01-2003 08:46 PM
‎08-01-2003 08:46 PM

Wasn't the whole tutorial about translational
constraints?

 

Mark Smith

SPX Air Gage Co.


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

Not really related to transitional constraints,
but...

 

I read that earlier, and something towards the
end of the article caught my attention:

 

In the last bullet, Bill Fane says, "To
see how I did this, turn on the visibility of the Driver part. Note that if
you also turn off Enabled, the part does not contribute to mass calculations,
but its constraints are still active."

 

This has not been my experience (but oh, how I
wish it were!)...  Just to make sure, I went into an assembly and checked
the mass.  Then, I disabled a part and checked the mass.  They were
the same - the only way I have been able to keep a part from contributing to
the mass calculations is to set it as reference.

 

So, does disabling a part supposed to truly
disable it from mass calculations, or was this just a goof on the author's
part?

 

-Brian

 

----------


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">


 

This link is from todays Manufacturing Toplines
for autodesk.


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Anonymous
in reply to: tap90291
‎08-03-2003 10:59 PM
‎08-03-2003 10:59 PM

Diabling the part does will not exclude it from the
mass calculations. If you RMB and go to properties of the part, go to the
"occurence" tabyou can turn on "Reference". This will exclude the part from mass
calcs.

 

Patrick Miller

Rand-IMAGINiT Technologies


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

Not really related to transitional constraints,
but...

 

I read that earlier, and something towards the
end of the article caught my attention:

 

In the last bullet, Bill Fane says, "To
see how I did this, turn on the visibility of the Driver part. Note that if
you also turn off Enabled, the part does not contribute to mass calculations,
but its constraints are still active."

 

This has not been my experience (but oh, how I
wish it were!)...  Just to make sure, I went into an assembly and checked
the mass.  Then, I disabled a part and checked the mass.  They were
the same - the only way I have been able to keep a part from contributing to
the mass calculations is to set it as reference.

 

So, does disabling a part supposed to truly
disable it from mass calculations, or was this just a goof on the author's
part?

 

-Brian

 

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style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">


 

This link is from todays Manufacturing Toplines
for autodesk.


size=2> 
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Anonymous
in reply to: tap90291
‎08-04-2003 12:34 AM
‎08-04-2003 12:34 AM

That's what I thought...they can't even get their
tutorials right...all the misinformation is sickening.

 

-Brian

 

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style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

Diabling the part does will not exclude it from
the mass calculations. If you RMB and go to properties of the part, go to the
"occurence" tabyou can turn on "Reference". This will exclude the part from
mass calcs.
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