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How to creat New Supply Sidewall Grille??

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jmcfaddn
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‎06-02-2003 06:03 AM
‎06-02-2003 06:03 AM

How to creat New Supply Sidewall Grille??

Is there a tutorial on how to modify/create Sidewall grilles. If you look at an existing one to modify, it's made up of 40 different parts, very complicated. Trying to stretch or modify the existing grille elements turns out to be a very difficult task. Has anyone modified one successfully?
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Anonymous
in reply to: jmcfaddn
‎06-10-2003 11:13 PM
‎06-10-2003 11:13 PM

I think I have managed to create blocks
that are equivalent to a 1x1 Sidewall grill (inserted a 10*6 grill with
different scales in x y and z), try and use this one in your content drawing
(just copy the blocks I placed in 0,0 to your dwg) and then the
procedure to create more grills should be as follows:

 

1. Insert the model block - with the desired
mesurements in the scale option (for a 13x5 grill scale x=13 Y=1
Z=5)

2. Explode the model block 
face=Arial size=2>and move the horizontal grill 1" from the bottom and
array 4 copies with 1" dist uppwards, do the same thing with the verical
one but with 0.75 dist and additional times.

3. block the model block and name it
"13x5.....model"

4. The other blocks should only be to insert scaled
as previously and blocked again.

Remember to use the same insertionpoint as
previously, to be sure draw a line form the insertionpoint or something before
exploding the blocks.

 

I'm adding my file to the customer files section
under Sidewall grill.

 

Hope this helps.

 

/Hakan


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Is
there a tutorial on how to modify/create Sidewall grilles. If you look at an
existing one to modify, it's made up of 40 different parts, very complicated.
Trying to stretch or modify the existing grille elements turns out to be a
very difficult task. Has anyone modified one
successfully?
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Anonymous
in reply to: jmcfaddn
‎06-12-2003 06:19 PM
‎06-12-2003 06:19 PM

I'm sorry I just realized that you can't explode
non-uniform blocks and that blocks in blocks doesn't seem to work well with The
tools in Content Builder. I'll look into this matter further.

 

/Hakan 


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I think I have managed to create blocks
that are equivalent to a 1x1 Sidewall grill (inserted a 10*6 grill with
different scales in x y and z), try and use this one in your content drawing
(just copy the blocks I placed in 0,0 to your dwg) and then the
procedure to create more grills should be as follows:

 

1. Insert the model block - with the desired
mesurements in the scale option (for a 13x5 grill scale x=13 Y=1
Z=5)

2. Explode the model block 
face=Arial size=2>and move the horizontal grill 1" from the bottom and
array 4 copies with 1" dist uppwards, do the same thing with the verical
one but with 0.75 dist and additional times.

3. block the model block and name it
"13x5.....model"

4. The other blocks should only be to insert
scaled as previously and blocked again.

Remember to use the same insertionpoint as
previously, to be sure draw a line form the insertionpoint or something before
exploding the blocks.

 

I'm adding my file to the customer files section
under Sidewall grill.

 

Hope this helps.

 

/Hakan


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
Is
there a tutorial on how to modify/create Sidewall grilles. If you look at an
existing one to modify, it's made up of 40 different parts, very
complicated. Trying to stretch or modify the existing grille elements turns
out to be a very difficult task. Has anyone modified one
successfully?
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Anonymous
in reply to: jmcfaddn
‎06-13-2003 01:19 AM
‎06-13-2003 01:19 AM

I think your best bet is to make it a parametric
part, instead. At leat that's what I did.

A plate 0.125" thick with square hole through it.
Dimensions of the hole change, the solid "ring" is constant, about 1.25". No
blades, no nothing.

Looks ugly, but I dont care. I need a part which
will insert where needed and I can tag it and schedule it.

sp

 


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
Is
there a tutorial on how to modify/create Sidewall grilles. If you look at an
existing one to modify, it's made up of 40 different parts, very complicated.
Trying to stretch or modify the existing grille elements turns out to be a
very difficult task. Has anyone modified one
successfully?
Report
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Anonymous
in reply to: jmcfaddn
‎06-15-2003 03:47 PM
‎06-15-2003 03:47 PM

Actually, you can explode some non-uniform blocks!
It seems to depend on what they consist of. This part seems to work well to
explode after scaling it non-uniformally.

/Hakan


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

I'm sorry I just realized that you can't explode
non-uniform blocks and that blocks in blocks doesn't seem to work well with
The tools in Content Builder. I'll look into this matter
further.

 

/Hakan 


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

I think I have managed to
create blocks that are equivalent to a 1x1 Sidewall grill (inserted a
10*6 grill with different scales in x y and z), try and use this one in your
content drawing (just copy the blocks I placed in 0,0 to your dwg) and
then the procedure to create more grills should be as
follows:

 

1. Insert the model block - with the
desired mesurements in the scale option (for a 13x5 grill scale x=13
Y=1 Z=5)

2. Explode the model
block and move the horizontal grill
1" from the bottom and array 4 copies with 1" dist uppwards, do the
same thing with the verical one but with 0.75 dist and additional
times.

3. block the model block and name it
"13x5.....model"

4. The other blocks should only be to insert
scaled as previously and blocked again.

Remember to use the same insertionpoint as
previously, to be sure draw a line form the insertionpoint or something
before exploding the blocks.

 

I'm adding my file to the customer files
section under Sidewall grill.

 

Hope this helps.

 

/Hakan


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
Is
there a tutorial on how to modify/create Sidewall grilles. If you look at
an existing one to modify, it's made up of 40 different parts, very
complicated. Trying to stretch or modify the existing grille elements
turns out to be a very difficult task. Has anyone modified one
successfully?
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Anonymous
in reply to: jmcfaddn
‎06-22-2003 10:07 PM
‎06-22-2003 10:07 PM

Hi again!

 

I tried to Create a sidewall Grill through the
content builder, quite hard work but I think I managed to create something that
could be used as a such!

If you want to try it out you can find it under the
heading sidewall grille in the customer-files area.

 

Attention!: Unfortunatly I did it in
the ABS2004 format so it won't work with ABS3!

 

Let me know if you have any questions.

/Hakan

 



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I think your best bet is to make it a parametric
part, instead. At leat that's what I did.

A plate 0.125" thick with square hole through it.
Dimensions of the hole change, the solid "ring" is constant, about 1.25". No
blades, no nothing.

Looks ugly, but I dont care. I need a part which
will insert where needed and I can tag it and schedule it.

sp

 


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
Is
there a tutorial on how to modify/create Sidewall grilles. If you look at an
existing one to modify, it's made up of 40 different parts, very
complicated. Trying to stretch or modify the existing grille elements turns
out to be a very difficult task. Has anyone modified one
successfully?
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