{"id":28096,"date":"2021-04-20T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/?p=28096"},"modified":"2021-04-16T14:42:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T18:42:52","slug":"create-your-own-flexible-component-part-3-advance-flexible-component","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2021\/04\/create-your-own-flexible-component-part-3-advance-flexible-component.html","title":{"rendered":"Create Your Own Flexible Component (Part 3) : Advance Flexible Component"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

[A New\u00a0Balloon Air Pump Design]<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome to The Last Chapter!\u00a0<\/strong>This is Part3 of Flexible component, for those who seeing this blog for the first time, you can go to the \u201cPart1 – Introduction of Flexible Component<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u201d and \u201cPart2 \u2013 Basic Flexible Component<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u201d for better understanding.<\/p>\n

This time our goal is to create a\u00a0flexible balloon<\/strong>\u00a0which is a little bit complicate then the spring part, it needs to use some tips and tricks on the sketches to achieve. But no worry, we will go through the details in steps. Before we start, let\u2019s see the full version of the air pump assembly in sketch with those two flexible parts (spring & balloon)!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Step 1 For Flexible Balloon (Ref. Plane)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

The most important thing is to setup the\u00a0reference top plane (Ref TOP P<\/strong>)<\/u>\u00a0for external reference in assembly. I use the bottom of the handlebar as the reference point because I want to create a situation that while pushing down the handlebar, the balloon will become bigger.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Step 2 For Flexible Balloon (Guide Line)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

(this design is just my idea, it can be any style you can think of)<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Step 2 is to setup the \u201corange guide line<\/strong>\u201d for the moveable range of the balloon sketch, and it is related to the moveable range of the handle bar. To achieve this situation, we can simply create\u00a0reference line<\/u>\u00a0\u201cA\u201d & \u201cB\u201d for finding the intersection point \u201cC\u201d, then we can move to next step to continue.<\/p>\n

Step 3 For Flexible Balloon (Balloon Sketch)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Based on\u00a0step 2<\/strong>, we create a construction line that coincident with\u00a0point<\/u>\u00a0\u201ca\u201d, \u201cb\u201d and \u201cc\u201d. Then, for the balloon sketch, create arc line \u201cd\u201d and \u201ce\u201d which are\u00a0not<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0fully defined<\/u>, and make the joint coincident with the point \u201cc\u201d. The reason is to simulate when pushing down the handle bar, the balloon sketch will move simultaneously along with the \u201cguide line\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Below is my entity sketch and movement relation for your reference:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Step 4 For Flexible Balloon (Part Feature)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

I would like to use 3 steps to create the balloon body as shown on above. When the balloon part is finished, you need to add it into the assembly with correct position.<\/p>\n

Step 5 For Flexible Balloon (External Reference)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Now we can setup the external reference for the\u00a0Balloon Ref TOP P<\/u><\/strong>. Again, the external reference also will be the handlebar bottom surface, just like the spring setting.<\/p>\n

Step 5 For Flexible Spring (Make Part Flexible)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Last step, apply \u201cMake Part Flexible<\/strong>\u201d feature to your balloon part. Inside the make part flexible feature, select the handlebar bottom surface as the flexible references. And you should be able to make the balloon become flexible.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/em><\/p>\n

Written by Roy Fu, Intelligent CAD\/CAM Technology Ltd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[A New\u00a0Balloon Air Pump Design] \u00a0 Welcome to The Last Chapter!\u00a0This is Part3 of Flexible component, for those who seeing this blog for the first time, you can go to the \u201cPart1 – Introduction of Flexible Component\u201d and \u201cPart2 \u2013<\/p>\n... Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":524,"featured_media":28350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,35],"tags":[889,60,144,62,40,453],"class_list":["post-28096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks","category-tips-tricks","tag-solidworks","tag-tech-tip","tag-tech-tips","tag-technical-tips","tag-tips-tricks-3","tag-tips-and-tricks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28096","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=28096"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28349,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28096\/revisions\/28349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}