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Sweeping multiple wires

  • July 17, 2014
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Hello,

I have a set of 48 wires curves that are oriented along a cylinder to give me structure of a stent. Then I import these wire as part in Creo Parametric to give the stent wires 3D structures. Every time I sweep the wires I have to select each wire separately and sweep them 48 times. Is there a way to sweep all the wires at once? All wires have same circular cross-section and radius 0.03 mm.

Thanks in advance.

Nikhil


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Best answer by JonathanHodgson

As an alternative to a UDF, how about Copy, Paste Special, Advanced Reference Editor?

We have this set as a mapkey... it's incredibly useful!

Once in the Advanced Reference Editor you can select the trajectory reference and select the next curve, then (hopefully!) just hit MMB until the feature completes.

You can also choose whether or not to have the copies dependent, so if you later wanted to change the wire diameter, you could just change the first sweep and all the others would update.

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Inoram14-Alexandrite
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July 17, 2014

Can you sweep one and pattern it?

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ptc-63352371-VisitorAuthor
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July 17, 2014

I am not familiar with pattern. And the wires are not symmetrical so they have different curves. So these are 8 of the 48 wires. Now I want to give them a circular sweep with diametter 0.03 mm, but I have to do them one at a time which takes more than half an hour. Can you please give me some detaisl about pattern?

Thanks

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Inoram14-Alexandrite
14-Alexandrite
July 17, 2014

Oh you said around a cylinder so I was thinking a pattern on an axis. But your picture is a bit different then I thought.

Most stents I have seen look like expanded wire. (like chicken wire).

It takes more then half an hour per sweep?

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