I've done something similar when I have to determine the wet weight of a pilot plant. However, rather than fighting in-context design I save the assy as a part then draw a bounding body. Then it's pretty simple to do a combine/subtract.
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Thanks, fellas. That's what I thought. I'll just cherry pick the pertinent information from old standards for what I want to see on drawings. Why did ANSI drop the spring standard, I wonder?
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I'm running up against a wall in specifying the standards for information that needs to be included on an engineering drawing of a spring. So I thought I'd ask the experts. I have done a search and checked the FAQs, but I haven't found anything yet. ANSI Y14.13M used to be the standard, but it...
Here's the version that I was suggesting.
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You can still do it with the end segments being in a fixed position. Just mate a plane within that component to be parallel or coincident to the ground plane while leaving all other links in the spring free to move.
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You can create "live" springs in several ways. I'll try to explain two.
In one instance you can create a sweep of the spring profile within the context of the assembly. The path sketch of the spring should be constrained to the components that are moving relative to each other. In this instance...
How about: no mustard and ketchup allowed on the Feature Manager. This one grabs me by the pink parts every time I work on someone's model that doesn't care about errors in the feature tree.
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