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Can you make a Frame Profile with repeating orthogonal hole / slot pattern?
michael_joyce_badea
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I'm trying to model a frame made of Unistrut lengths. I've made a profile library for Unistrut, modelled the wireframe and applied the profile to the wireframe. This has worked well but I can't find a way to remove the holes / slots along the length of a Unistrut frame without manually cutting these into every frame, this will be very time consuming. I need these slots to verify it fits together and to mate parts in assembly. Is there a way to automate this? If not, it would be great to have a way to add a pattern of orthogonal features to a frame profile. For example, to cut a slot in the frame every 50mm along the length of the frame.
Screenshots of a section of the frame I'm modelling and how Unistrut should look with slots cut out.
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MichaelPascoe
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Yes you can automate this. Use configurations to configure one frame that can have the slots turned on or off, then insert that frame with the configured variable length that you want into the assembly. For more specific help with your part studio, please share a link.
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MichaelPascoe
Member Posts: 2,073 PRO
Definitely. Use a configuration variable instead of a configuration list. If needed, you can input the configuration variable into a normal variable and round the value to the nearest segment distance that you want, or you can leave it at the exact specified distance from the configuration variable.
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Yes you can automate this. Use configurations to configure one frame that can have the slots turned on or off, then insert that frame with the configured variable length that you want into the assembly. For more specific help with your part studio, please share a link.
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Great, I think this will work, thank you!
Is there a way to do this without having to define lots of configurations for all possible lengths? To set the length parameter (for example) when you insert into the assembly instead of selecting a pre-defined configuration. I have many different lengths, so this would mean making a ton of configurations for all of the lengths used
Definitely. Use a configuration variable instead of a configuration list. If needed, you can input the configuration variable into a normal variable and round the value to the nearest segment distance that you want, or you can leave it at the exact specified distance from the configuration variable.
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Fantastic, thanks @MichaelPascoe !