I am creating a tubular spaceframe chassis for a racing car. I have sketched datum points then placed datum curves between these points. These datum curves can then be used to specify beam elements in Mechanica to FEA the chassis.
I have used Insert>Advanced>Pipe to create the tubes joining the datum points. The chassis is shown below:
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This has worked for the majority of the tubes but some fail because of intersection problems. The pipes do not all intersect each other at the corners (shown below).
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Is there another way of creating tubes that would blend the corners together correctly. Sweeps will not work as they cannot be used on a single datum curve.
I have used Insert>Advanced>Pipe to create the tubes joining the datum points. The chassis is shown below:
View attachment 2984
This has worked for the majority of the tubes but some fail because of intersection problems. The pipes do not all intersect each other at the corners (shown below).
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Is there another way of creating tubes that would blend the corners together correctly. Sweeps will not work as they cannot be used on a single datum curve.