Anyone tried this? 2

[Eltron]

Hey, Kids. I was just wondering if anyone has ever tried to be as foolish as I am today...I need to model and/or visually represent a ~1L SS container filled with .125" beads. It's essentially a sealed mixer set-up that I need to show a sectioned-view of in order to get the design idea across.

I can do a series of linear then circular patterns of the beads and stack layers, but as you can imagine I'll end up with a bazillion components. Besides, it looks a little too uniform. It would be nice if there was a sort-of fill command for applications such as this. But then again that's way down on my list of things that would be nice...

Any advice/ tips/ parables/ general discouragement will be greatly appreciated, though not necessarily followed

Dan

http://www.eltronresearch.com

 

[handleman]

Ah. The "little less than 13K parts in the assy" line led me to believe that the patterning was done on the assembly level. Where are all your other parts? ;-)

 

[Eltron]

Sorry, I should have said ~13K bodies in the assy.

Dan

http://www.eltronresearch.com

 

[halfmark]

Ok just for fun I tried making a cylider then revolving a funel type top. I then created several balls, placed them above the funel, and aplied gravity.When it calculated the gravity the balls fell and settled randomely. I then exited the simulation highlighted the entire assembly and fixed it. all the balls stayed where they fell.