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Suspension arms transfer the load generated by the vehicle’s wheels to the chassis. So it is
important to consider suspension arms in chassis analysis as displayed in Figure 1.
In this lesson, you will learn how to add suspension arms to a chassis model in SpaceClaim.
The process of importing coordinate points and creating a 3D sketch is demonstrated.
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SpaceClaim reads the points in zxy format as seen on the screen as displayed in Figure 3.
The polyline function creates specific points within the model. You can download the .txt file
here.
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Figure 7 Select the created upper wishbones beams.
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Renaming it as right hand side front upper arm based on its location on the chassis as
displayed in Figure 9.
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To draw the rear suspension arms, we can first align the our geometry to look directly at the
plane and then click on the sketch tool as displayed in Figure 14.
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Figure 14 Look directly at yz axis.
With the line feature, we can approximately create a point on this plane and then click on
3D view to sketch in the 3D space. Connecting the created point to the chassis at the front
and rear end as displayed in Figure 15 and Figure 16.
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Figure 19 Suspension arms at correct height.
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In this way custom cross-sections are assigned to the created suspension arms. To mirror
the front and rear arms to the left-hand side, we first create a plane in the middle of the
chassis geometry as displayed in Figure 23.
Figure 23 YZ plane.
Then using the mirror tool by selecting the created plane as the mirroring plane. Now by just
clicking on to the right hand side suspension arms, they can be directly mirrored onto the
left hand side as displayed in Figure 24.
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Preparing the geometry in SpaceClaim
Importing Coordinates into the model.
Creating beams using points.
Creating 3D sketches in geometry.
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