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Spring Damper Unit Probs

bennywidag

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Hello, i am trying to make a spring/damper unit aka coil over suspension for a car. Done the Piston and damper no problem however i came to the spring and could not use the one i modeled as a Linear spring in the simulation command, which is what i desired.

After 3 hours of fruitless searching i found you just pick two point and it produces the spring for you, however this leaves me with a ungainly looking few pieces of wire with coils on them, and my own modeled spring which wont move as the piston moves in and out.

Is there anyway to either use my original spring as the simulation, or to mask the sim spring and use my own as a fake if you like, which would still move up and down somehow.

This is what i am aiming for
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NFzGWRVFUmQ

Thanks for any help

Ben

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