Making a component flexible

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Hello

I set up a spring to facilitate a design in order to change its characteristics quickly (radii, lengths, turns)

I then wanted to try a simple assembly but I can't make my spring "flexible" under solidworks.

Right-click on my component, "component properties" and the flexible part grayed out under "resolve as..." cf image

Does anyone have an idea?

 

Thanks in advance!


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The flexible mode is only available for subassemblies in order to maintain the degrees of freedom of the constraints ... So it's not applicable to a part-type component

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Hello

Because it's just impossible on a part.

 

This is only for sub-assemblies.

 

This means that, in the parent assembly, if you make a subassembly flexible, then you will be able to move a part of that subassembly individually into the parent assembly (and not the complete subassembly).

 

 

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Hello

 

Maybe by creating a spring + axle sub-assembly and constraining the spring with respect to the axle with an advanced distance constraint, it would then be enough to hide the axle and insert this entire sub-assembly into the main assembly?

 

This would make it possible, by making the sub-assembly flexible, to be able to compress and decompress this spring.

 

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Making a component flexible does not mean that we will animate it. It's not Motion :-)

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Yes yes of course, it is necessary to rebuild each time :)

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Okay I had "mixed" a youtube video with my spring concept set but it doesn't work, too bad!

 

Thank you for your answers.