New Custom Feature: Standard Bearing
I needed to chuck an MR63 bearing into a project I was working on, and got a little sidetracked. Built a custom feature to generate deep groove bearings for basically all ISO standard sizes. Includes the following bearing families:
6000 series
160 series
MR series
MF series
600 series
F600 series
R series
FR series
in total, database includes 1,060 unique bearing profiles currently. Will likely expand in the future when I need a more obscure bearing in one of my projects
All dimensions should be accurate (including raceway/abutment geometry).
data based on
Product code and lookup table are bidirectional - specify one and the other gets filled automatically (so you can either paste in a product listing or look up the dimensions to get a product code)
Should help us engineers who struggle with the confusing name schemes for the billion different numbering patterns for different bearings lol
snag the custom feature here: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/e4a030aab7d1433266c719eb/w/0435c62a020b7f27bb7dccd8/e/65d7056e9475e89c660260c4
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That was a long needed one! Should in fact be part of the Onshape standard parts library. Thank you! :0)
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Excellent feature. I'm thinking of making something like this for NEMA frame stepper motors but there seems to be even more inconsistency between vendors and product names there.
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Nice work! I used to download from Mcmaster, but they had all the balls modeled. Then I would just model a revolve with a groove representing the shield, when I needed one. This is much nicer, and can play around with the sizes.
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Small suggestion: pre-select "non-revision managed" in part properties. Probably 9/10 pro customers using this will treat it as a purchased part, and not rev manage the bearings. Will save an extra few steps for them when they go to release assemblies containing these bearings.
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Great idea! I'll make this change (and a few other minor tweaks) soon
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Thank you!
Thinking of adding a checkbox for fancy geometry (with balls and such) - do you think that would ever be useful? or should I leave it as is0 -
Lmk if it happens :)
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The render man himself doesn't see a reason for chucking in fancy geometry? 🤔
I need my fidget spinners with unshielded bearings to look SO accurate in product renders.
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Probably not in everday jobs, but certainly when it comes to doing section views in drawings for documentation and explanations. Also, it gets the mass proterties right. I'd appreciate the option.
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@Derek_Van_Allen_BD 😁 well I completely forgot about unshielded bearings, yeah you would need to be able to render those...
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