Cinematic features, tracked dimentions, Google doc export

adam_mercier

Hello Users and team,
I would like to propose an impovement request for cinematic analysis of assemblies.
We're developping offroad Ebikes. We need to track parameters to tweak the suspension behavior, to do so, we have to measure the relative movement of components on the full travel. 

Right now I have to manually record positions over the range of motion each time I want to review a new design, wich is pretty horrible way of working.

What would work for me :

-Record/set control dimentions, same style as part studio level variables, but driven by assemby position.
-Have those variables exported to google sheets and updated as the model updates or with a update command same as BOM

What I would also need :

A way of showing sketches on the assemby level, that would allow virtual pivot point visualisation.

I'm sure those requests would also be interesting to other users!

Can someone from the team mak this post as an improvement request?

Best regards, Adam

adam_mercier

Hi, I am still looking for a good way to export automated motion curves, I tested some linked apps but OS seems to lack the basic functions needed to export the data.
I would need to have assembly level variables and named/saved dimensions do get some interesting output. Is this planned?

adam_mercier

IS there a solution in the works to get assembly level variables? I can not find a good solution to export movement data of a mechanism.

malay_kumar

How are you making mechanism go through the range of motion? Are you using animate mate feature or just manually dragging?

If you select a mate it shows the DOF value which is basically the relative position of two involved mate connector. That is the closest thing we have currently. Will exporting those during animation work for you? When we will have assembly level variable it will probably be tried to existing mate (feature) parameters.
 
Some partner products may also work for doing advanced motion analysis. 

konstantin_shiriazdanov

traking motion sometimes is rather useful functionality, if OS add some kind of "sensor" for assembly and allow traking several sensors while animating some constraint, and then somehow export data it would be handy

adam_mercier

malay_kumar said:

How are you making mechanism go through the range of motion? Are you using animate mate feature or just manually dragging?

If you select a mate it shows the DOF value which is basically the relative position of two involved mate connector. That is the closest thing we have currently. Will exporting those during animation work for you? When we will have assembly level variable it will probably be tried to existing mate (feature) parameters.
 
Some partner products may also work for doing advanced motion analysis. 

For the first test I was dragging manually. As there is no step by step feature on the animate mate? unless I stop at each step.

Yes if we could export a mate DOF value based on each step it would already be a big improvement and allow some interesting things.

A dummy mate could work, like for exemple a parallel mate as I tested it here. Ideal would be a completely blank mate with no constraint at all.



I think the core functionality is not too far off, please do it guys!  

Adam

julian_julian372

This is something i am was looking for too.
Considering a few years have passed. Seem a solution now is to use 'named' states In conjunction with the updated measure tool than now updates in real time. You still have to manually enter you data into a spread sheet, however it makes it a lot easier to jump between the named states in the assembly and extract the 'measurements' from the measure tool.