Shafting a solid

[jschmidt01]

Hello,

First time poster, long time absorber of eng-tips wisdom.

I am designing a housing for a wheel using V5R20, I know how much the wheel will rotate and I want a visual guide for clash detection. Currently I have just put multiple instances of the wheel in my assy showing the range of motion, however it would be useful to shaft the entire wheel through it's angular range of motion. Is there are a way to shaft entire solids as opposed to sketches? Or am I just approaching this entire design and clash detection wrong?

Thanks in advance

J

 

[itsmyjob]

this is usually done with kinematic.
you make your object move and ask for a trace of the object like a sweep volume.
The geometry is not so clean (faceted shape) but this is what CATIA gives us for DMU space analysis like clash...

Eric N.
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[jschmidt01]

Thank you very much, I will give it a go and report back if there are any issues