NX Mechanical Routing Defromable assembly for hydraulic hose

[Williaa]

We have established specific length hydraulic hoses that we purchase ie; 31.00 No. 16, and for the longest time, we have just the ends of the hose as our assembly components, and we place those components in an upper level assembly and utilize routing to create the splines and place stock. We were informed that you can make a deformable assembly utilizing NX mech routing, however, I am having difficulty in actually getting the hose to deform properly. Specifically, maintain lengths, (which I put the fixed length constraint in) and maintaining minimum bend radius. I can get one end of the assembly to constrain to the upper level assembly, however, I can not seem to figure out how to make the other end assemble to the mating component. Has anyone ever made a deformable hose assembly and if so please share your tips on how exactly to make this a possibility.[URL unfurl="true"]https://res.cloudinary.com/engineering-com/image/upload/v1582038835/tips/2020-02-18_9-12-13_ly9tea.bmp[/url][URL unfurl="true"]https://res.cloudinary.com/engineering-com/image/upload/v1582038850/tips/2020-02-18_9-12-44_ytallv.bmp[/url][URL unfurl="true"]https://res.cloudinary.com/engineering-com/image/upload/v1582038860/tips/2020-02-18_9-13-06_cas5yw.bmp[/url][URL unfurl="true"]https://res.cloudinary.com/engineering-com/image/upload/v1582038950/tips/2020-02-18_9-15-13_f4qdr6.bmp[/url]

 

[NutAce]

I tried this a couple years ago. I wasn't able to come up with a solid solution which worked all the time.
I was able to get the warnings for length and minimal bend radius, but the main problem was to get a real life path.
I always ended up with bends in the hose which were not natural.

I know Siemens came up with a solution in NX continuous release (thought it was already in NX 12 but can't find it) for Flexible hoses. I didn't get the chance to have a look at it yet.

If you look at these search results you may find something workable for you.

Flexible Hose Search


Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2

Building new PLM environment from Scratch using NX12 / TC11