Hello everybody,
I' m doing my Final Year Project (mechanical engineering).. designing the estructure of firefighting system of a boat.. i' m doing all the boat on Solidworks but when I want to apply the solution i' ve found for the gangway.. I can' t do it, so that' s why I' m writing here in this forum..
First of all, i' ve been searching answers all around this forum and on the internet but i' ve found nothing..
The idea is:
I want to do a rotatory hose that when the footbridge moves, the hose moves too, like in real world, due to the gravity, taking a curvilinean form.
I' ve fixed the hose on two flanges but when I do a spline .. the assembly moves but not the hose..
Also I've tried with the Static Analysis from the Simulation's Complement... but I think what i need is a Dynamic Study of all the assembly.
I' ve got the SOLIDWORKS ROUTING complement but i don' t know how it could help to me for this problem..
Thank you very much and.. sorry for my english..
Bryan.
The hose does move but you need to do a force rebuild after each move. Which is to be expected because it has to recalculate the new position of the hose.
It would help with how the hose moves if you put in some more relationships so as to constrain the hose in some respects and have it look more realistically.