adaptive spring from Design Accelerator

[swalton]

I would like to control the length of a spring based on a position rep in my assembly. I have found the examples of an adaptive spring using the coil command, but I wanted to use a compression spring created by the Design Accelerator.

Does anyone have any tips/tricks to creating a spring with Design Accelerator and then adjusting the length of it with a position rep? I still want to be able to re-design the spring with DA as required.

[ravikmb5]

yes u can do

creating a spring using DA

specify the start plane and end plane in assenbly

Note:
The start plane and end plane Should be created at part level
and the geometry should be projected in assy level

Requires some Experience of handling Top Down Assy

watch the Thread Spring Animation by Drive Constraints

[ungureanu.george]

Dear Ravi,

I am very interested to use your trick in order to have an adaptive spring designed by DA.

Unfortunatelly, I didnt totaly understand what you say here.

So, I kindly ask you to present your Ideas in the example from INV 2011/ tutorial. Based on this example, all people would have the best study case.

Lot of thanks,

George

[johnsonshiue]

I could be wrong but I do not recall PosRep compute supports Adaptive compute. This means geometrical change between PosRep is not allowed. I am interested in seeing an example.

Thanks!