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Is there a way to animate this torsion spring in an assembly?

Nicholas_Sapounakis — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 20:21:48 GMT

I created a spring hinge and I would like to add this respective spring to it and have it animate correctly when moving the hinge accordingly. The idea is that as the hinge opens and closes, the spring ends resting on the hinges would look like the torsion forces acting on it. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Re: Is there a way to animate this torsion spring in an assembly?

g-andresen — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:22:31 GMT

Hi,

have a look at this tutorial

günther

Re: Is there a way to animate this torsion spring in an assembly?

Nicholas_Sapounakis — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:29:21 GMT

Hello Günther,

Thank you for the reply. The tutorial you provided is on compression springs. I'm looking for a solution on TORSION springs.

Re: Is there a way to animate this torsion spring in an assembly?

jhackney1972 — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:35:07 GMT

I am not sure you can make the spring active with Joints but you can fake it easily. Model of the spring is attached.

Re: Is there a way to animate this torsion spring in an assembly?

Nicholas_Sapounakis — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 22:30:22 GMT

I don't mind faking it. Thank you once again John for sharing your experience and coming up with an interesting solution.