What a great demo! I can't believe as a student I have access to such powerful software

Thanks so much, was looking for around 2 hours until I found this video

Great work! Thank you for your help!

Time well spent viewing this one!

Just stumbled across this video and watched it to see how closely it compares to the method of modeling hoses that we developed at my company years ago. Turns out that it is very similar. One thing we had struggled with was how to deal with routing through hose clamps. I believe the method you show in your electrical cable example will solve the problems we had. We had been trying to do it using some method with adaptive work points, and the adaptive updating is inconsistent on a good day. I did want to point out that the answer given about controlling the spline length is not quite correct. That is possible outside of Tube & Pipe. However, it was a fairly new feature at the time that the video was recorded, so the presenter may not have been aware of it. He was unable to find it because he was looking in the location where the option exists in Tube & Pipe. Instead, all he needed to do was put a dimension on the spline in the 3D sketch.

Great demonstration. Question: Would this technique work in a situation where one of the components is connected to the rest of the assembly via a slider joint, while the second component is stationary?

At the example with the pulley, the length of the rope it's not remaining the same when you move the pulley, I am trying to find a way to solve this, but the sketch has too much dimensions if I try to give this a standard lenght so it always break and the sweep becomes red

Now with this is there any way for inventor to calculate the force required to pull an object through a pulley system as shown?

I'm too scared to do sweeps and cables. But I have a free work period today. I design radial gates.

Thanks for this great tutorial. But for some reason, I can't move my parts after I've created the curve. They appear fixed, even though I don't have a ground constrain. Any ideas on why is that?

Why adaptive sketch doesn't work with position representation??

Guys, appreciate the video, but you need to work on the steadiness of volume. Your voices routinely faded in and out.

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