11-04-2016 01:08 PM - edited 11-04-2016 01:11 PM
Okay, I've got a cone part with a bolt hole pattern in it, and bolts sticking out through those holes. Then there is a door that is contoured to fit that cone with a matching hole locations. Now, I start bringing in washers, and place a relationship to the bolt axis, then a tangent relationship with the flat face of the washer to the outside of that contoured door panel. Everything goes smoothly for the first 6 washers, until when I place the 7th, for some reason they aren't fully constrained. Then it starts getting really weird when I start unlocking and locking the rotations on them. See video below. Pay attention to the shaky corners in the pathfinder for the washers under #6.
This isn't really that big of a problem, I'm just a stickler for things being fully constrained, and I'm curious what is going on here with these.
11-04-2016 02:54 PM
Hi @nominus38,
You mentioned that this is a hole pattern in the cone part.
So can You "pattern" the bolt and washer using this pattern?
11-04-2016 05:04 PM
hawcad wrote:Hi @nominus38,
You mentioned that this is a hole pattern in the cone part.So can You "pattern" the bolt and washer using this pattern?
There is no actual pattern, it is a bolt circle but not a pattern that can be used as the bolt pattern was done while the part was unbent. After rebending the hole pattern is no longer useful in that regard.
11-04-2016 05:15 PM
11-07-2016 03:02 AM
As the door is a cylindrical surface there are 2 possible solutions to the tangent relationship - could this be part of the problem, although if some are OK it seems a bit weird.
11-07-2016 06:15 AM
I would use the "Duplicate Components" tool to pattern the Washer and the Nut over the Bolts.
11-07-2016 06:42 AM
Hi,
I suggest using part pattern from "part level". You can save a lot of effort and time.
Here is a video about steps:
BR,
11-07-2016 09:24 AM
Imics wrote:Hi,
I suggest using part pattern from "part level". You can save a lot of effort and time.
Here is a video about steps:
BR,
Dude, I never would have thought of doing the pattern like that, using the central cutout by offsetting out to where the bolt circle is and then pattern by curve.....brilliant. I think you will save me lots of time on things like this in the future.
11-07-2016 11:36 AM
Hi,
"I think you will save me lots of time on things like this in the future."
This was my goal!
BR,