Railing model

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Good evening

Could someone pass me a .iam of a railing created with frame generator?

In fact, I'm looking to make a customizable guardrail and I'm having a little trouble understanding how to repeat the bars. For a given number of rungs, no problem, we apply the profile to the lines and that's it. But how do you do it when you don't know in advance how many rungs there will be?

Kind regards.

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See this tutorial for SW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi_CLPtObWw

To Inventor see this link

http://cadxp.com/topic/10242-repetition-de-composant/

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You manage via an equation:

L=n*centre distance+(2*d)

L: Length of the railing

n: number of rungs

Entraxe: centre distance of the bars

d: Departure (and end) mark of the first (last) bar

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I have a client (so I can't give files) who does this job with an excel file.
In the case of this client the file is external (it controls the whole case) but the file can be integrated, look at this document: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9n_R1K7GvSALUVVbU9EUVk4V3M.
The concept of linking to excel should be suitable.

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Hello 

There was a similar topic not long ago.

Here is how to control the number of body repetitions according to the result of another body repetition as a function of a distance.

http://www.lynkoa.com/sites/default/files/questions/answer/06/02/2017/2017-02-06_at_09-20-34.mp4

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Ha, it's for inventor! 

It seems to me that you can handle equations in the same way for repetitions.

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Hello everyone and thank you for your answers.

My problem doesn't come from the equations but from the fact that on inventor, you create a support part, you put it in an assembly and with frame generator, you place the profiles. Once this is done, it creates a subset "Frame0001". When you want to do a repetition, even if you select a single element, it repeats the subset...

I think the solution must be to use icopy but I need to look into it a little more.

Kind regards.

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Indeed, we don't use Frame Generator.
Is the subset created editable?

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Good evening

After looking for a while, I found a solution that seems to fit:

  1. Create a ghost part, with the 2D or 3D sketch representing your structure
  2. Create an assembly by placing your part
  3. Place profiles with frame generator and adjust them
  4. Place a profile from the content center with a lambda length
  5. Edit the part to make it adaptive
  6. Save it by changing its name (important because inventor puts the length of when you created the profile in the name)
  7. Constrain the profile where it should be placed
  8. Do the repetitions.

By doing things like that, no bugs, everything is configurable and above all, you have the profile lengths for a cutting list for the workshop.

No worries in the MEP either.

Kind regards.

 

PS: I'll leave the subject open for a while, if anyone has another solution to propose don't hesitate to :)

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I pass the subject in resolved, I just saw that we can still answer even if the subject is resolved.

Kind regards.

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