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I need to design/a "belt" of sorts; basically a thin flat strip with a tab and slot on either ends that will be assembled around a cylinder with the tab pulled thru the slot, with an obvious overlap. I can model the flat version and then an installed version with separate features and then usea family table to turn features on and off as needed BUT, I am wondering if there isn't a more elegant way to accomplish this... Maybe I could modela flatsketch of the shape, thenwrap that around a cylinder and then use both sketches tocreate theinstances, but how do you handle the overlap? Any thoughts, comments or recommendations will be welcomed...
thanks in advance...
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In Reply to Paul Korenkiewicz:
I need to design/a "belt" of sorts; basically a thin flat strip with a tab and slot on either ends that will be assembled around a cylinder with the tab pulled thru the slot, with an obvious overlap. I can model the flat version and then an installed version with separate features and then usea family table to turn features on and off as needed BUT, I am wondering if there isn't a more elegant way to accomplish this... Maybe I could modela flatsketch of the shape, thenwrap that around a cylinder and then use both sketches tocreate theinstances, but how do you handle the overlap? Any thoughts, comments or recommendations will be welcomed...
thanks in advance...