O-ring part management

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Hi all.

 

I take advantage of this post to know your habits and method when using O-rings in your assemblies.

How do you proceed? Is it a piece to create every time? A library room? configurable?

How do you draw an O-ring? a simple torus, corresponding to its dimensions in the free state? or a revolution of an oblong torus, to represent it in position in its throat?

The first solution allows you to easily manage references of library parts, but the display in the assembly is not perfect since the dimensions of the joint in the free state will make it appear "in the material".

The second solution allows for beautiful visualization in assemblies, but part management becomes difficult. An O-ring reference may have different mounting deformations...

 

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In my humble opinion, you have to create the O-rings in a state of rest

so create your own O-ring library

then you can make jams for the assembly but it quickly becomes unmanageable

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In general, we do the basic version (so no distortion). And if it really bothers the customer, we consider the distorted version, where it's really visible.

We have the advantage of storing commercial parts with business.

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Hello

Indeed it is more correct to represent the O-rings in the free state, especially to make a library. 

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Library file to config.

One file per subject (with color coding to differentiate them in ASMs).

With Axis and Tangent Plane (Hide) geometry in the PRT, for use in ASM.

As it is managed by an excel, it is possible to create "simple overwritten" versions as needed.

Writing config names: dia x tore (with the "0000.00" that are fine)

(dia x torus = to match the LJF catalog, but it's a personal choice)

 

Edit:

Advantage: allows you to swap materials after the fact without breaking constraints, and without having to rechoose configurations...

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