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Trouble making leaf springs

michael.puckett
michael.puckett over 5 years ago
I'm trying to use the leaf spring generator in ADAMS to model a leaf spring I have in CAD and I can't seem to get the leaf spring to generate. I double checked with one of the standard ones included in the atruck database and that worked fine, so I'm thinking it has something to do with my variables. I'm not sure what the problem is though. I have picked points off my CAD model to put into the leaf plotting window and have measured the arc lengths that those points generate as well to make sure I'm not running into some kind of issue where the spring is too short or too long to fit between the frame hardpoints, but I'm running out of ideas on what to change. Pretty much everything but the leaf geometry itself I have set to match the sample atruck spring to try to eliminate something there as an option. Any ideas on what to check next? The error is just the vague "can't make python file" one, but I know it's not a permissions issue (like another thread on the forum here) as I can make a python file fine in that directory with the sample spring.
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    0 Alexis Del Rio over 5 years ago
    it seems you are changing all parameters in one go. Have you tried changing one at a time, test it and attemp the next parameter? it may take longer but at least you can eventually understand where the issue is
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    0 Alexis Del Rio over 5 years ago
    it seems you are changing all parameters in one go. Have you tried changing one at a time, test it and attemp the next parameter? it may take longer but at least you can eventually understand where the issue is
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