Does anybody have any experience or suggests suggestions of methods of working out if one component will fit through a series of openings / past obstacles?
For example, I am designing a coal stove with boiler. The body, being of welded steel construction, can't have any removable panels apart from the door. Inside the stove will be a set of components, including an irregularly shaped back-boiler. I want to work out if my design of boiler can be installed through the door?
This is a simple example to illustrate my point, and I have solved it simply by making the boiler narrower than the door. However, If I could have been sure it would fit, I could have had a boiler wider than the door, and installed it by twisting it through the door, much like getting a wide sofa through a narrow doorway.
How do the pros. solve problems like this? This must come up loads, especially in the automotive field!
