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1) Family Tables, if you want each instance to be saved or if you have multiple instances of the spring with different compression lengths in the assembly
2) Flexible parts.
What have you tried and where did you get hung up?
to make spring flexiblw you have to put relations to drive the height of this spring
remmember - prro\e allows you to create a spring only with pitch information. No. of coils is not included. So, if you gonna simply change height of spring, this will run, but the no of coils go down. So, create relation first to drive pitch value, in this manner to have sconstant number of coils
As I understand it, you are trying to make the spring flex as the mechanism is operated; you need the spring to animate. Is this right?
There are a few other posts about this sort of problem, and I don't know of anyway to do it. If you only need it to update on regen, then you can use relations or flexible parts as suggested. I'd be interested to hear if there is a way of making the spring flex with the motion of the mechanism.
this whole marketing behind flexiblity function in Pro\E makes wrong imagination for people new to the CAD software. It push to think pro\e will handle this for its own - i.e spring deformation. But it is not so easy though, even nowadays with so powerfull hardware
still, I think, there should be special tool for spring with no of coils included, to make creating compresion state for spring easier, just not to involve ralations as it is now
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