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Can i constrain assemblys to certain values?
stefan_nilsson
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I’m working on a articulated dummy/mannequin that i want to use for sizing other designs so that they will be somewhat ergonomic. I found a model of a dummy, but when making the assembly everything moves uncontrollable. There are a lot of ball mates that all seem to influence each other so its very hard to set a desired body position. Is there a way that i can control the movement of the joints other than fixing them? Like a variable table would be nice
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You can fix Body Type with a configuration table. Use that to set discrete mate positions.
A little more detalj would be helpful. But thank you, this seems lika valuable knowledge so i will have to learn this
Ball joints can have limits.
Also, you can lock subassemblies.
Neither of this answers my question. A limit in a ball joint mate limit limits the conical angle, not a single degree of freedom and is og nu use whatsoever. Dividing the whole body into subassemblies would make the workflow even more awkward than fixing one limb at the time. Maybe i was unclear in my post
Would you post a link to your document? That may simplify the description of what you're doing.
Glen's proposal of using a config table isn't a bad one. If you want to seperately configure angle and rotation of a limb, a ball joint is, though.
If you split things up into sub-assemblies, you could also leverage "named positions" together with the "lock/follow position" function.
I will have to spend some days on learning assembly configurations.
Here is a link to the document, its work in progress:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/25dc075efed784c74c114f72/w/a8c381463c2bed26ca8f65ef/e/555a41925956211a048d2493?renderMode=0&uiState=67c2d849db1820773d7a2ce9