Adaptive Spring

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Ist there a way to create an adaptive spring in Fusion 360 (like in Inventor)?  What i mean is a compressible spring.  It would be great if any one could help me out.  Thanks a lot!

Ajay

[innovatenate]

Check out this conversation, I think it may help.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/design-validate-document/flexible-cable-in-fusion-360/td-p/5906550

Thanks,

[Anonymous]

Hi, thanks for your reply.  The link that you sent to me is quite far from what i like to do.  I like to create a compressible spring so that i can link various components through different joints.  I like to create a situation where the spring always presses one component against another, like in a real life scenario.  I hope you get what i mean.  I mean just like in Inventor where you can create a compressible spring and add different constraints.

[innovatenate]

I think what may not be obvious is the methodology used in the flexible hose screencast. I'll try to clarify here. 

There's not an "adaptive" toggle like you would find in Autodesk Inventor. Unlike Inventor, the position of components are part of the parametrics of the design timeline. This enables you to employ positional modeling techniques to create geometry based upon the position of components (similar but not the same as exactly positional representations).

This is done by using the Capture Position command. This command stores the positional information of components in the design's timeline. 

By editing a capture position feature in the timeline, you can then cause features in the timeline to be recomputed based upon an updated component position. In this way, you could achieve a similar effect to an adaptive component in Inventor. 

Does that help? Let me know if you have any other questions. 

Thanks,

[Anonymous]

Hi, thanks for the detailed explanation.  I found a(nother) nice way to simulate the effect of spring without creating a spring at all and I am quite relieved now.  One can use the 'Slide' joint for the two mating components that a spring supposed to connect and add a 'rest' position so that the moving component always comes to rest at a particular position (in other words) it is always pushed back to a 'rest' position.

Ajay