Hi guys/gals,
I'm new to these forums and I thought I might bug a few of you. What I have is an assembly of a stainless box plumbed with hoses and ball valves and such. I am trying to create a sub assembly hose with all of the necessary fittings installed that would allow me to insert and mate (with coincidental and concentric mating) to various hardware and have the hose portion of the assembly stretch to the location automatically (so that I can have 1 hose assembly but mate to fittings at different angles, heights, etc.)
Currently, I have to insert the fittings, gaskets, close nipples, crimp sleeves, and hose and mate each part separately then edit the hose's 3d sketch to match the "center" location of the fittings so that they hose (which is a thin sweep feature) will connect the two. I don't mind messing with the 3d splines to make the adjustments perfect, but it would save me a boat-load of time not having to mate each fitting/gasket/crimp sleeve x 2 per hose location.
Is there a mate or option or SOMETHING that can achieve this?
Thanks,
Trae
If you have SW Premium, it includes the routing add-in. if you do these hoses alot, it will be worth looking into. if it is only once in a while, maybe not since there is considerable set-up and learning to make it run well.
(note - I have not tried this approach, but it will probably work - depending on how much control you need over the path)
assemble one ends fitting parts.
add the parts for the other end and mate this end together (but not to the first end).
add the "hose" part as a virtual part modeled in-conext with a sweep along a 2 poin spline connecting the 2 ends.
this is you hose sub assy.
insert in to your upper level
set it so "solve as flexible" and mate the ends - rebuild. the spline should update.
notes -
1) there can only be one instance of this hose assy in the upper level, unless you add configs for each instance.
2) I would recomend that the hose ass be a "template", and you make it a virtual assy in the upper level.