Skip to main content
14-Alexandrite
September 14, 2015
Question

Wire Rope

  • September 14, 2015
  • 3 replies
  • 1424 views

Hello,

        any one guide me how to sketch the wire rope?

wire-rope.jpg

    3 replies

    1-Visitor
    September 15, 2015

    You are overconstraining: you can't fix the outer circle diameter AND the inner circle diameter if you want all 5 circles to be tangents to the outer and inner circle. Just switch to reference one of the two diameters and add all the tangency constraint you need.

    2-Explorer
    September 15, 2015

    Hello,see following youtube link:

    Creo 3.0 Tutorial: How to create a Rope and Wires - YouTube

    Hope it helps...

    Regards

    Milan

    1-Visitor
    September 16, 2015

    There is another easy way that doesn't require tangency constraint and can be therefore more robust: just draw a closed 5 sides polygon, like an irregular pentagon, then draw a "star" connecting the mid point of each side of the pentagon. Force equal length on the 5 edges of the poly and then force equal length on the 5 stars segments. You can now draw circles from the pentagon vertexes with a radius up to the mid point of the pentagon edge, and you're done. No tangent required, just a bit of construction.