Tutorial - Modeling rope in Creo Elements aka Pro/E

Sudhir Gill

7 Mar, 2012 12:41 PM

For making simple bended rope we have to follow these steps.
1 Make 4 cylinderical extrusions.
2 Twist them.
3 Bend them.

1. Step 1:

   Sketch >> Top plane.
   

   

2. Step 2:

   Now draw a circle of 10mm tangent to vertical and horizontal axis.
   

   

3. Step 3:

   Extrude it by 100mm.
   

   

4. Step 4:

   Now we have to pattern it about Y-axis which will create 4 cylinderical bodies. For this operation select the cylinderical body and then goto edit >> pattern.
   

   

5. Step 5:

   Change pattern parameter to Axis.
   

   

6. Step 6:

   Select Y-Axis in the Co-ordinate system.
   

   

7. Step 7:

   Click the angular extent button to make it equally spaced about 360. Enter number of items be 4. Click OK
   

   

8. Step 8:

   Now we have the 4 cylinderical body.
   

   

9. Step 9:

   Moving onto next step goto Insert >> Warp.
   

   

10. Step 10:

    Select the cylinderical body and then select twist tool. This tool will be twist the cylinderical body and give it shape of rope.
    

    

11. Step 11:

    Under references change the direction to Top plane.
    

    

12. Step 12:

    Input the angle value be 400. Click OK.
    

    

13. Step 13:

    We have the rope body. Now we have to bend the rope.
    

    

14. Step 14:

    For bending goto Insert >> Warp.
    

    

15. Step 15:

    Select the body and then click Bend tool. This tool will be used to bend the rope.
    

    

16. Step 16:

    Now change the direction under Reference to top plane.
    

    

17. Step 17:

    Input the angle value = 180º and press enter. We can see that the rope is bended.
    

    

18. Step 18:

    Click OK and the rope is created.