Creating a dynamic flexible part - Part II

OK, So maybe I won't upload a model. I wanted to post a model that
would show what I was trying to accomplish but have not found any
command for uploading on this newsgroup thru the Google interface.
Don't have access to a regular newsreader in the office so.... I will
either send the model home to upload a file or upload it to one of my
websites and provide a link.

In otherwords, after the holiday, I will have something available to
show what I am working with

Thanks

Doug

 

Doug,

You will probably not be able to upload to the ng since this is not a
binary newsgroup.

I think you could get a good answer for your question if you were to
answer the questions I posed earlier. How do you plan to activate the
flexibility? Do you want to drag something on the screen in SolidWorks?
Use a macro? Run an AVI? Run Animator? Some other software? Will this be
displayed on your computer? A customers computer? The Web?

Several ways to do what you ask are available, but most of them are
mutually incompatible. Please specify.

 

Doug, to make a rolling diaphragm or similar shorter diaphragm work, we
need a proper command in Solidworks that lets us constrain the length
of the surface in cross section that stays the same and lets the end of
the diaphragm move within a range of set limits.

I would guess someone has done an API for this, though I suspect it
would be in some commercial package for kinematics & other moving
linkages.

I think it would be very useful.

Bo