Springs

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The Springs tool is used to create Springs in the scene or when you edit an existing component. Springs

Components

The family of Springs can be selected using the tabs.

Springs

Parameters

Springs

  • Type - This combobox let you set normal or endless Springs.
  • Wire Diam. - This combo box contains all the values related to the wire diameter available.
  • Coil Diam. - This box lets you choose the coil diameter.
  • Sizebox - These two text boxes are used to define the two diameters, internal and external
  • Pich - With this combobox you select the pitch
  • Unstressed length - Length of spring unstressed, with the two tab upper the parameters let you change the state of the spring and you can select the compressed mode in this case, the label becomes purple to indicate the status changed (and the spring will be colored red)

    These are the parameters of the Compression Spring, the Extension and Torsion Springs differ in some parameters.

  • Material - Using this combo box, the user could select the code of the material related to the component.
  • Fast Mode - Select this check for positioning an schematic spring without wire.
  • Authored Mode - Check to deny acces to intellishape.
  • Use ACIS - Select this check to use the ACIS kernel instead of PARASOLID as the modeling engine.

BOM Information

Spring BOMThe bottom section of the dialog contains the items useful to set the information related to the component. Springs The section is divided in two parts: BOM Information and Custom Information. For a detailed explanation see here BOM information

The data structure behind Springs

Every component defined in the User Interface has behind him some data files which contain properties and parameters related to the component itself. These files are placed in the folder of the standard rule. The main files associated to the family of components are the followings: BOMConfig.ini and TypeOfSpring.dat

BOMConfig.ini file, contain the data values useful to build the Code

1	| Compression spring	| CS<dw>x<D>x<L0> - <R>
2	| Extension spring      | ES<dw>x<D>x<L0> - <R>
3	| Torsion spring	    | RS<dw>x<D>x<A> - <R>

TypeOfSpring.dat file, contain the data values useful to build the component

#	dw	->	Wire Diameter
#	D	->	Coil Diameter
#	s	->	Pitch
#	L0	->	Height Uncompressed
#	Ln	-> 	Height Compressed
#
#dw		|		D	|	s		|	L0		|	Ln
0.20	|	2.90	|	1.00	|	7.50	|	2.48
0.20	|	2.50	|	1.40	|	8.20	|	2.07
0.25	|	3.20	|	1.81	|	10.60	|	2.61
0.50	|	11.00	|	4.00	|	14.50	|	4.20
0.50	|	6.00	|	2.76	|	35.00	|	9.22
0.50	|	5.50	|	1.74	|	6.60	|	3.24
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