I am trying to randomly place a bunch of randomly placed screws into a containted to fill it.
I have a part model fo the screw and a part model of the container.
Now in an assembly, I want to "dump" the screws into the container allowing for random placement to approximately determine if my irregularly shaped container is big enough to accommodate all of the screws i need to fit.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
I can't think of an accurate method largely due to the difference between the head/body diameters of the screw. The safer bet may be to base the fill quantity on the volume of space taken per screw (head diameter X overall lgth) divided into the volume of the container. This will likely result in a safety factor because the screws will nest in smaller spaces if they "interlock" with each other. That safety factor would result in a given number of screws fitting into a container with some room to spare. This is better than underestimating the space and not packing the correct number of screws per container.