Creo Parametric - Mechanisms | General Connections

[@nabeelk]

Thanks Dave.

[@mervynlarrier9424]

Hi Dave, When should you opt to use motion skeletons or skeletons with motion connections instead of using this method? This seems so much simpler that building an entirely new assembly just to get the parts to move. Thank you.

[@CADPLMGuy]

As I state both in my Motion Skeletons video and Top Down Design book, I don’t recommend Motion Skeletons.

[@mervynlarrier9424]

@@CADPLMGuy What about the skeletons with motion connections? When would I use those instead of parts. Sorry for being unclear.

[@CADPLMGuy]

When you're designing from the top level and you don't have the individual parts designed. You're using the Skeletons to size the moving components.

[@mervynlarrier9424]

@@CADPLMGuy oh! That makes sense! Thank you, sir.

[@Chanakya50BC]

Good. It would be good to have a pattern feature that can pattern the links along the curve with the connections patterned as well. Kindly take it up with PTC. 😊

[@CADPLMGuy]

If you want that, you can take it up with PTC by making the suggestion on the PTC Community Ideas page.

[@mohamedab8943]

As usual, one of the best channels to leart a lot in a short video. Everytime I launch Creo I have to turn on the features in model tree. Do you know how to get it activated automatically? Regards.

[@CADPLMGuy]

If you are in Creo 6 or later, changes to the Model Tree are stored automatically. If you are in Creo 5 or earlier, see my video on Model Tree Configuration.

[@mohamedab8943]

It's solved now, and the video has been liked👍. Appreciate your help!😀

[@leonwen3964]

Very nice video, but really like to know how to constraint the last segment part of the loop, thanks.

[@spawnage170]

I think you would just constrain it like every other segment (pin constraint first, then slot follower constraint second). You would of course need to make the length of your path an even multiple of the length of a single track segment so the last link lines up nicely with the first link.

[@syedabishosainrizvi7817]

isn't there a copy paste kinda thing where you can chain different segments easily?

[@CADPLMGuy]

I'm not sure what you're talking about. Do you mean the Repeat command? I think you can Copy and Paste components but that's not something I typically do. No reason for that other than there are usually a dozen different ways to do things and people generally lean on the two or three techniques they prefer.