Show spring positions in inventor drawing

[Anonymous]

Is it possible to show driven spring positions (rest & compressed) in an inventor drawing with only using a single ipt. file for the spring or do you need to have a view rep for each view with 2 spring ipt. files, eg. one ipt of spring at rest & another ipt spring compressed.

Thanks,

Sandy

[Anonymous]

Make the spring adaptive, wish I could give you an example but has been a long time since I have done it

[Anonymous]

Yes the spring updates perfectly when the model changes in the assembly environment but I can only seem to show the spring in 1 position in the drawing. As I said above, the only way im aware you can get round this is to have 2 spring ipt files (one modelled of the spring in each position) and using view reps....

[Anonymous]

The is the identical to the spring I have modelled but for some reason when you create a positional rep in the assembly, the spring ipt stops updating...….

[JDMather]

You will need two ipt files, compressed and expanded states.

I would probably use Overlay View.

[SBix26]

You could do it with two different solid bodies in one .ipt file and use view representations to show one or the other.  But then you have twice the mass in the file (if it matters).  I suppose you could even make one of them a surface body so it doesn't have mass.

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Sam B
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[johnsonshiue · Accepted solution]

Hi Guys,

At the moment, Inventor part or assembly can only have one geometric definition at any given moment. You cannot have multiple geometric definitions at the same time. You need two parts here.

Adaptive does not work because no matter how the shape is driven, it is still one shape at a time. Overlay Views does not apply here because Positional Representation does not allow geometric change between positions.

We are working on Alternative Representations project to address these kinds of requests. If you are interested, please sign up Inventor Beta (https://bit.ly/InventorBeta). There you can try the latest Beta build of in-development projects on a no-install required environment. Give feedback to the project teams.

Many thanks!