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Water tank filling effect?

Question asked by 1-8CE-291 on Sep 19, 2008
Latest reply on Sep 23, 2008 by vineet kumar sharma
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I would like to simulate a volume (cylinder in this case) filling with water.

I have Solidworks Office Professional 2008.

Can anyone suggest a way of portraying this please?

Thanks in anticipation
Cameron
Mark Kaiser
Mark Kaiser Sep 19, 2008 1:09 PM
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Yes you can. You need to build the liquid as an in context part in the assembly, and have it extrude up to a surface of a 'dummy' part in the assembly that moves in the animation via a distance mate or just a drag. That's the way I've done it in previous versions of SW, don't know if 2008 has a better way.

I've attached a sample assembly with the motion manager sequence in it. I've also attached the resulting avi file. Take a look and let me know if you have any questions. If the assembly opens up with the components lightweight, set them to resolved, and hit the 'calculate' motion study button first before the play button.

It's a very crude representation, but it should give you the general idea.
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