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hi i am working in a tooling industry i want to know about skelton assembly and what is advantage of using this suggest suitable answer or any material is available to make this concept clear.
I don't have any specific knowledge of using skeletons for tooling but I have used them a lot for large assemblies (200<>2000 components).
Typicaly I used them to pass fixed information between multiple models without creating assembly references. An example would be passing the locationand size of mounting points from one skeleton toany models that needed to use the mounting points - that way you can be sure that thereare no variations in size or location. [skeleton contained surfaces and axes to represent interface points/areas]
I also used skeletons to pre-assign space envelopes where several engineers were modelling different parts of a module.As long as they stayed in the space envelope they could do what they liked (within reason
) - if they came outside the envelope they had to inform the groupand the envelope or the design would be modified to suit and all could see changes.
Can be used to simplify assembly constraints as well - in the top assembly only skeletons were assembled toa skeleton (using coordinate systems). That way the assembly constraints were never lost if individual parts were modified/deleted.
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