I have created a functional component for my custom pier and placed it in the bridge model. The top surface of the cap has a 3% fall on it. When I place bearings in the model, they appear to ignore the slope of the cap and end up just floating in the air above the cap. They seem to just be taking the very highest point of the pier as the surface level for all bearings, rather than calculating the top surface of the cap at each bearing location.
How do I get these bearings to sit on the cap? Can I manually adjust them somehow without breaking the smarts?
If that isn't possible, what's the methodology for modelling these bearings? Just place some extrusions in there?
Colby, In the upcoming release of OBM, we have an option for crowned caps, hopefully situations you mentioned above would be taken care of automatically.
I think his issue was that he was using a parametric cell and the pedestals were not finding the top of his parametric cell cap properly. I have seen the same thing in the past. Colby, make sure you submit a ticket and send them your files so they can take a look.
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