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Workflow for space frame structures, skeleton modeling, 3D sketch construction line construction jig
emil_4
Member Posts: 5 ✭
Any recommended workflows for creating frames like bicycle pipe welded frames, space frames like in aircraft frames, motorcycles or race cars , etc?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_frame
Can one create a 3D skeleton or 3D sketch of frame and then snap pipes, cylinders, or extruded structures like I-beams to the skeleton or 3D sketch?
Any alternate assembly recommendations for these type of structures?
Best,
-Emil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_frame
Can one create a 3D skeleton or 3D sketch of frame and then snap pipes, cylinders, or extruded structures like I-beams to the skeleton or 3D sketch?
Any alternate assembly recommendations for these type of structures?
Best,
-Emil
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I'd start with 3 sketches that capture the overall size/shape from each direction: Side, Front, Top. From there, build a "skeleton" of sketches to represent the center lines of the tubes/beams. From there, use multibody modeling to capture the correct BOM, and finish with boolean operations to accurately model the joints.
Does this make sense?
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By aircraft fuselage hoops, do you mean like a profile of cross sections (like bulkheads...
) along the length of a fuselage? Never heard of hoops for describing fuselage frames; but its a cool description.
With One Shape, is it possible to draw "single line sketches" between two data plane points. By this assume a single point on each plane of two planes and lets assume for the sake simplicity, that these planes are parallel to each other. The problem that I have it found difficult in the past is trying to create a single line sketch without having to define a plane for it first. These single lines then could be the centerlines of the pipes/tubes/beams.
I could follow up with a drawing to describe what I mean if you don't understand.
-Emil