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IDW Overlay with adaptive part

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Tom_V
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IDW Overlay with adaptive part

Hi,

 

Is it possible to make an overlay in your IDW from an adaptive part? If yes, how? 

In my case I have to make an overlay from a plate wich rests on a spring (unloaded and full loaded position of the spring). 

Hope someone can help me with this issue. 

 

Grtz 

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cbenner
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jfleeger
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Curtis_Waguespack
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Hi Tom_V,

 

Assuming you've created an assembly with 2 plates and the spring, then you can create a Positional Representation in your assembly as jfleeger suggests, and set the distance between the plates as needed for each positional rep. Then create a drawing view of the assembly specifying one of the Positional Representations , and then use the Overlay View tool to overlay the other Positional Representation over the first.

 

About Positional Representations:

http://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2014/ENU/?guid=GUID-C728DFAC-1B45-4879-A004-45A8DC991954

Create Positional Representations:

http://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2014/ENU/?guid=GUID-34C28C35-45CA-4476-9336-30146F7C9471

 

About Overlay Views:

http://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2014/ENU/?guid=GUID-F88580B6-787D-40E2-BDFE-79581ED462B5

Create Overlay Views:

http://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2014/ENU/?guid=GUID-3588BEF8-23E0-40BE-9938-128DFFF7ABC8

 

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

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Tom_V
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Making the Position representations and overlay view in my drawing isn't the problem. The Problem is, when I change the distance between the plates, the spring lenght changes in both Position Rep's. So I become something like in the picture below. So my spring in my base view and in my overlayview is the same length... 

 

Notice that the spring is an adaptive part and not 2 parts for each position.

 

 

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vanson.193
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Hi Tom!
Did you create Overlay with adaptive part?

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