I'm drawing a pebble bed heater via solidworks
in assembly process, I need to place some balls( the pebbles) inside a cylinder.
how can I mate this balls to be inside the bed without interfering with each other ?
Sorry if the picture is not clear but I hope that you got the idea
the balls has to be aside and above each other
if anyone can help please do so
Thanks
you could maybe put lines up and down in the cylinder. Then place the center of the balls on the line but tangent the balls to each other. If you want to offset the balls just put the lines closer than the ball dia. and add tangent to the balls in the other lines. You may want to play with diaganal lines too.