Creating springs and measures to them more efficient way
We’ve been trying to find a more efficient way of creating springs and adding measures to them, but so far haven’t had much success.
We’ve standardized a lot of spring parameters—names, orientations, and measures—but every time we create a new spring, it still takes too long to set up both the spring and its associated measure.
Example workflow:
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Start with an empty model and a point at (0,0,0).
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Create a spring to ground with stiffness properties in the global coordinate system:
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Z = 10 N/mm
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X = 0 N/mm
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Y = 0 N/mm
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Add a measure for this spring and name it
Wheel_1_Z.
We’ve tried to automate the process using mapkeys, but haven’t managed to make it work.
Question:
What would be the best way to streamline or automate this workflow?
Issues:
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Case 1: You select a point and press the Spring button. A simple spring is created, and the point remains in the buffer. But when you switch the spring type to Spring to Ground, the point list becomes empty, so you have to reselect the point.
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Case 2: You select a spring and add it to the buffer, intending to apply a measure. But when you press the Measure button, the selection is cleared — no object is available to create the measure for.
Has anyone found an efficient way to automate spring creation and measure assignment? Ideally, something that:
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Preserves selections when switching spring types or adding measures.
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Can be scaled to handle 100+ springs with consistent naming/numbering.