Chris Lohman Posted March 19, 2002 Share Posted March 19, 2002 I just created this tutorial for someone on how to create a simple bookshelf with shelves that would resize themselves when the vertical supports are moved. I thought someone else might benefit from it so I'm posting it here. Bookshelf_Tutorial.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhovatter Posted March 20, 2002 Share Posted March 20, 2002 Very nice Chris Thanks Dallas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gthomson Posted June 23, 2002 Share Posted June 23, 2002 Chris, I downloaded this Bookcase demo and found no sound in the AVI file. I get sound on other AVI's from Ironcad. Is this file corrupted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Lohman Posted June 24, 2002 Author Share Posted June 24, 2002 I didn't record any sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmccall Posted January 14, 2003 Share Posted January 14, 2003 I found this tutorial extremely helpful...You can apply the same "use edge" with the right mouse button click on sheetmetal parts.. This will give more flexability when moving or re-sizing sheetmetal parts with bends, that way you can simply move the bend or sheetmetal edge to the next surface, and have all the features follow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmccall Posted January 29, 2003 Share Posted January 29, 2003 It looks like I may have either gone too far with this concept, or found a logical design limit to its use. I began playing with this tip and I actually created a sheetmetal wall with all the bends I needed and I was able to drive the shape and size in every direction and it would update perfectly... then I noticed that some of my "driven" flange edges were actually moving out of perspective of the other flanges! Things started snapping to the wrong points and bang! The whole model started going south. I was actually able to move a "driven" edge! ( you can tell by the "no smoking" circle and slash symbol that appears over the pull handle of a driven edge when you try to modify it) The funny thing about it is that the sysmbol would dissapear and only allow me to move the edge back to the proper location (aligned with the driving edge) in increments of .001 until it would stop!... Some edges were .050 out of alignment! I will try to send a file attachment of this issue later. I am working on Pro Time Consumer bka Pro inEfficient right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmccall Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 Here is the file. I have rescently opened it in version 6, so I hope that doesn't affect or prevent 5.2 from opening the file. It still seems to be acting up using 6.0... Maybe its just a bad model? Well in any case I was trying to expand on the concepts used in this tutorial. Read my previous posting. Drag your pointer over the rear wall lower flage and drag the handle. The upper flange was created and constrained to the shape of the lower flange in an attempt to lock the geometry together.... so as one flange is updated, the other would follow... but they dont... the upper flange is doing something entirely different. The method used to create this relationship is described in the tutorial. I have not run into any other issues using this method for parts or normal solid geometry. From what I can tell, problem only seems to be in sheetmetal. But to reitirate (spelling?) my statement... "It looks like I may have either gone too far with this concept, or found a logical design limit to its use." Thanks to Chris Lohman for the tutorial... it is very useful ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmccall Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 Forgot to attach the file:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmccall Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 here's the file... again... flanges.ics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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