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I apologize if these are very basic issues. I am a student at university with much to learn!
Thanks for your help.
r
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You can work with parameters and relations, and if needed with family tables to make your skeleton dynamic and easily adjustable by altering just some parameters.
The connections is another story.
One possibility is to make all tubes shorter and leave the corners empty. In an assembly you can add corner parts that can by dynamic so they adjust to the ribs
Another is creating UDF's to do this
Or, if you make all rod ends fully round, I suppose they will also intersect correctly (if all diameters are the same)
Or, you can use the EFX extension. This addon provides all functionality you require.
A couple of observations: Most frameworks will be a primary tube bent at intersections with struts welded between them. This requires a little more planning than you have currently done with the skeleton.
If each of these are individual parts, you must treat each end in relation to the mate. Normally, you would want to detail each rod to show how it is actually cut for fabrication prior to welding. You can use the skeleton model to provide vectors for each cut.
If this is simply a concept model, you can place spheres at the joints and extrude the rod to the skeleton's line endpoints.
You can also look up the "pipe" command. This will help make bends in the geometry if you wish. Pipes are driven by points and create straight vectors between the points and will create the appropriate bend radii when the more than 2 points are specified. Points can be line ends. They do not necessarily need to be point features.
You can make a flexible part of the tube and constrain them in an assembly using the skeleton model. I have not done this but there are tutorials on how this is done.
You can work with parameters and relations, and if needed with family tables to make your skeleton dynamic and easily adjustable by altering just some parameters.
The connections is another story.
One possibility is to make all tubes shorter and leave the corners empty. In an assembly you can add corner parts that can by dynamic so they adjust to the ribs
Another is creating UDF's to do this
Or, if you make all rod ends fully round, I suppose they will also intersect correctly (if all diameters are the same)
Or, you can use the EFX extension. This addon provides all functionality you require.
EFX is the perfect solution; thanks for telling me about it. With a little research on the extension, I came across the PTC SAE Sponsorship ( http://www.ptc.com/company/community/education/sponsorship/ ), which offers a free academic version of Creo 2.0 that includes EFX.
Thanks again! This is going to cut weeks off of frame design.
It is indeed a very powerful tool.
Once you'll get familiar with it, building frames and making changes to existing frames should be a piece of cake.
I'm glad I could help.
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Vladimir
What I've done for similar things is sweep surfaces at the assembly (or skeleton or inheritance) level. Then you can create individual parts with tube protrusions and use these surfaces at the top level to determine OD and wall thickness, and use them to trim the tubes as needed.
I suggest use Framework Extension for Creo - here is short video tutorial for you:
Quick EFX (Expert Framework Extension) video tutorial
Regards,
Vladimir