[A New Balloon Air Pump Design]
“Flexible Component” is one of the new features in SOLIDWORKS 2022. You can define a part component as flexible to drive the geometry of flexible components by the assembly geometry.
That means it works only in assembly files to make a rigid part model become flexible without creating several configurations.
Better Explanation for Assembly Model!
To make the spring body a “flexible component”, we can avoid creating several configurations to explain our design in different positions as in the above pictures. However, this blog will be the introduction purpose first.
In other words, this blog will be continuous in part2 and part3.
Introduction for The Flexible Component
Please note that the external reference must be one of the following entity types:
The “Make Part Flexible” feature can find it in customize > commands > Assembly categories. Or you can directly use the search commands function.
For part2, I will show the details of how to create the spring sketch for the flexible components feature.
For part3, I will show you more advance about how to create the sketch for the flexible balloon!!!
