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Flexible material when mating

robert_mcmahon402robert_mcmahon402 Member Posts: 2 ✭
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Hello,

I am in the process of designing a modular micro drone for a 3D print run. When it comes to assembly I would like part of the frame to flex into place and be held by the other part of the frame (I hope that makes sense)... If you could give me some suggestions, that would be greatly appreciated.

Best wishes

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    matthew_stacymatthew_stacy Member Posts: 476 PRO
    @robert_mcmahon402 checkout the Onscale app.  What you're trying to do is likely more in the realm of CAE than CAD. 

    The only way that I am aware of to approach this directly in Onshape (or any other CAD platform) is to create configurations of the parts in the multiple states of deformation (zero, intermediate, ... , fully deformed).  But for anything other than the simplest geometry that will entail a lot of old-school pencil & paper (or spreadsheet) calculation to correlate load to deformation.

    Whereas Onscale should be able to cloud compute displacements with specified restraint and load conditions and then spit out pretty pictures that you can animate.
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