5 Replies Latest reply on May 6, 2013 4:14 PM by Pascal M

how to split nut in half?

Pascal M May 4, 2013 7:57 AM

helloooo, easy one i guess

i have a 3.5 in tall nut on which i would like to apply a force pulling down on the bottom half and another pulling up on the top half : a threaded rod is screwed in the bottom half (weight is hanging) and another stud is threaded in the top half the whole part is attached to something fixed.

normaly i would use a split face for conventional parts, im not too sure how to do this correctly with this case

how can i do this?

thanks

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Re: how to split nut in half?

Jared Conway May 4, 2013 1:15 PM (in response to Pascal M)

Haven't had a chance to look at your file but why won't a split line work in the situation you describe? Or are you having trouble creating the split line?

Is the problem that you want to keep the threaded Rods instead of just working with forces? If you keep the rods, you don't have to do anything. The bonding will happen only between the coincident overlapping faces. This assumes your threading is just a cylindrical hole and rod (ie, no actual threads).
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  Pascal M May 6, 2013 7:40 AM (in response to Jared Conway)
  
  okiii managed to split it ! now i trying to use circular symetry and i get source projection at cyclics blabla wont work. anyone have an idea on how to fix this?
  
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    Jared Conway May 6, 2013 3:59 PM (in response to Pascal M)
    
    what version/service pack of the software are you using?
    
    you can probably get away with just applying roller/slider to all the faces unless you have a cyclic/circular load that you're planning on applying.
    
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      Pascal M May 6, 2013 4:14 PM (in response to Jared Conway)
      
      2013 sp1 i think, wasnt my computer i cant affort sw
      
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    Jared Conway May 6, 2013 4:08 PM (in response to Pascal M)
    
    2013 sp3.0, seeing the same issue. when i try narrowing down which one is causing the issue by suppressing them and then try editing the definition of any of them, it throws an error about them not being valid. you'll need to fix that problem first. you can try choosing different faces or you may have the split the whole body into multiple bodies instead of just faces.
    
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