{"id":27004,"date":"2020-09-17T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/?p=27004"},"modified":"2020-08-12T15:14:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T19:14:46","slug":"create-your-own-flexible-component-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2020\/09\/create-your-own-flexible-component-intro.html","title":{"rendered":"Create Your Own Flexible Component (Intro.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ict.com.hk\/Uploads\/image\/202007\/20200708155002_2344.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"383\" align=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[A New Balloon Air Pump Design]<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Flexible Component<\/strong>\u201d is one of the new features in SOLIDWORKS 2020. You can define part component as flexible to drive the geometry of flexible components by the assembly geometry.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s means it works only in assembly file to make a rigid part model become flexible without create several configurations.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Better Explanation for Assembly Model!<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ict.com.hk\/Uploads\/image\/202007\/20200708155126_4218.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To make the spring body as <strong>\u201cflexible component\u201d<\/strong>, we can avoid to create several configurations to explain our design in different position as above pictures. However, this blog will be the introduction purpose first.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, this blog will be continuous in <u>part2<\/u> and <u>part3<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Introduction for The Flexible Component<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please note that the external reference must be one of the following entity types:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ict.com.hk\/Uploads\/image\/202007\/20200708155157_4688.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ict.com.hk\/Uploads\/image\/202007\/20200708155218_5937.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"552\" align=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The \u201c<strong>Make Part Flexible<\/strong>\u201d feature you can find it in customize &gt; commands &gt; Assembly categories. Or you can direct use the search commands function.<\/p>\n<p>For the part2, I will show the details of how to create the spring sketch for the flexible components feature.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ict.com.hk\/Uploads\/image\/202007\/20200708155240_9531.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ict.com.hk\/Uploads\/image\/202007\/20200708155250_6874.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the part3, I will show you more advance about how to create the sketch for the flexible balloon!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ict.com.hk\/Uploads\/image\/202007\/20200708155329_4531.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Written by Roy Fu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ict.com.hk\/\">Intelligent CAD\/CAM Technology Ltd.<\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[A New Balloon Air Pump Design] \u201cFlexible Component\u201d is one of the new features in SOLIDWORKS 2020. You can define part component as flexible to drive the geometry of flexible components by the assembly geometry. That\u2019s means it works only<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2020\/09\/create-your-own-flexible-component-intro.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":524,"featured_media":27147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2767,2768],"class_list":["post-27004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-tricks","tag-flexible-component","tag-make-part-flexible"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27148,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27004\/revisions\/27148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}