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Help With Grease Groove

maesoph

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Dear All:



I need help making a figure 8 grease groove on the inner diameter of a bushing. Basically, If I took a piece of paper or sketch plane, drew a figure 8 on it and then rolled the paper or sketch plane into a surface, that would be it. It's similar to a cosmetic groove, but that's not quite it since it needs to have depth.
 
I am attempting to assimulate what you have asked. Sheetmetal, create feature wall, protrude the wall, wrap an 8 around it using a datum curve. Flat pattern? Does this help?



Second option: Feature, create, surface, extruded. Extrude the surface. Feature, create, datum curve, normal to surface. Feature, create, tweak, flatten surface. Flatten the surface. This option is backwards, but will get you your dimensions.
 
I am running Wildfire 1.0 and I don't see the Feature-create-tweak command, but other than that, I think you are closer than anyone else that has tried to help. This one stumped our friends from India. Once the shape is flattened out, the problem is simple; but I haven't been able to do that yet. Thanks for trying.
 
Try making a formed Curve on the inside, the sketch would look like this, if you want just a cosmetic... The overall length will be a relation of the ID*Pi thats the circumference. Similar to the previous post. A sweep will fail because it overlaps, but I believe if you treat them as two halves you can do a sweep...



View attachment 401
 
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I got it figured out and mine looks about like yours. I used a combination sin*cos similar to what hack suggested and it looks similar to your. Go ahead and post the file - I am new at this and will likely learn something.
 
Just like creating a spring, but instead of creating a solid, you are creating a cut on a cylinder surface; of course the pitch is the height of your cylinder. You create a left handed cut and then a right handed cut, or variable sweep.



Right1?
 
I uploaded the file back on the 28th or 29th, how long until it shows up in the file area? Here it is for anyone looking for it.
 

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