The IPROBearings tool is used to create Bearing on the shaft part. This dialog box is displayed every time you drop the Bearing tool in the scene or when you edit one.

The Bearing can be placed also on cylindrical parts, drop the tool on an circular edge or face and the bearing inherits the shaft dimensions.

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Components

The family of Bearing can be selected using the three tabs.

You can change the type of bearing clicking of the option buttons placed under the tabs.

At the right of the component there is a icon,

which, if clicked, it changes the state of hidden or visible of the bearing balls.

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Parameters

• Standard Name - Using this dialog box, the user can select the correct rule.
• Type - This text box the values related to the selected rule.
• Diam. Int. - This box lets you choose internal diameter of bearing related to the selected rule. When the user drags a component over on circle edge (for example, if the user drags a bearing over a shaft), a check control named Auto will be shown. Using this toggle control, it’s possible that the bearing inherits the shaft dimensions.
• Diam. Ext. - Using this combobox, the user could select the external diameter of the related selected internal diameter.

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BOM Information

The lower section of the dialog contains the items useful to set the information related to the component.

The section is divided in three parts:

For a detailed explanation see BOM information

Bearing Tech InfoCustom Information is specific to bearings, it’s a collection of information about the bearing. When you click on the Custom Info tab,

it is displayed a three column grid showing the information associated to the component.

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Status bar

The status bar reports the description of the selected standard rule. If you click on description Library Data Manager starts to modify the description and the rules to create the bill of materials. Close to it, on the right, there is a button that enable you to edit the geometric data file, launching the Library Data Manager - Geometry…

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The data structure behind Bearing

Every component defined in the User Interface has behind him some data files which contain properties and parameters related to the component itself. These files are placed in the folder of the standard rule. The main files associated to the family of components are the followings: bearing.ini and bearingN.uni

Every numbered section is related to an icon of the component in the User Interface, and every record contains these fields:

• DataFile -> File containing the data values useful to build the component
• Rule -> Name of the Standard Rule
• Description -> Description of the Standard Rule

For example, this is the structure of a Bearing.ini file

# Data file    Rule Description
[0 1] # [Ball]
4259.uni    | UNI4259 | Radial bearing ball with a gear
[0 2]
42591a.uni   | UNI42591 | Ball bearing with gear and oblique contact
[0 3]
4259Q4C.uni    | UNI4259 | Ball bearing with four conctats and a gear
...
...
[1 1] # [Roller]
4259rNU.uni    | UNI4259RC | Radial with cilindrical roll
[1 2]
4259rNJ.uni    | UNI4259RC | Radial with cilindrical roll and a gear
[1 3]
4259rNUP.uni | UNI4259RC | Radial with cilindrical roll and a gear
...
...
[2 1] # [Thrust]
603367A.uni    | UNI603367A | Axial bearing with sample effect
[2 2]
603367B.uni    | UNI603367B | Axial bearing with double effect
[2 3]
603367C.uni    | UNI603367C | Axial with cilindricals rolls
...
...
[End]

Under each section it is possible to place several records; every record refers to a particular rule.

The bearingN.ini files, contain the fields of the standard values related to bearing normative; the structure of the files are self-explaining.

## =================================================================================
## * IronPROLibrary Data Manager - *** Fronema Srl *** - www.ironcad.it
## =================================================================================
## Saved On: 11/07/2019 15:23:20
## --------------------------------------------------------------------------
## CODICE | d    | D     | B    | Cd    | Cs    | Vlg   | Vlo   |Nb | AFT |
## --------------------------------------------------------------------------
618/3     |  3.0 |  10.0 |  4.0 |   375 |   176 | 40000 | 48000 | 4 | 1.0 |
623       |  3.0 |  10.0 |  4.0 |   488 |   146 | 60000 | 70000 | 8 | 1.0 |
618/4     |  4.0 |   9.0 |  2.5 |   540 |   180 | 63000 | 75000 | 8 | 1.0 |
604       |  4.0 |  12.0 |  4.0 |   806 |   280 | 53000 | 63000 | 8 | 1.0 |
624       |  4.0 |  13.0 |  5.0 |   695 |   335 | 38000 | 45000 | 8 | 1.0 |
634       |  4.0 |  16.0 |  5.0 |   865 |   440 | 36000 | 43000 | 8 | 1.0 |
618/5     |  5.0 |  11.0 |  3.0 |   637 |   255 | 53000 | 63000 | 8 | 1.0 |
625       |  5.0 |  16.0 |  5.0 |   865 |   440 | 36000 | 43000 | 8 | 1.0 |
635       |  5.0 |  19.0 |  6.0 |  1290 |   695 | 32000 | 38000 | 8 | 1.0 |
618/6     |  6.0 |  13.0 |  3.5 |   884 |   345 | 48000 | 56000 | 8 | 1.0 |
626       |  6.0 |  19.0 |  6.0 |  1290 |   695 | 32000 | 38000 | 8 | 1.0 |
618/7     |  7.0 |  14.0 |  3.5 |   956 |   400 | 45000 | 53000 | 8 | 1.0 |
...
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