ParallelAssembly: Define the cell gap in x and y direction differently?

Hi,

I want to build a battery modul of cylindrical cells in hexagonal arrangement. But with a different cell gap in x and y direction to the cells. Is this possible? Or to define the position for each cell in the Parallel Assembly?

Thanks

Answer 1

[Umar]

Hi @Fabian,

Thanks for your question — I looked into this and wanted to share what I found.

Unfortunately, the short answer is that this isn't currently supported. The InterCellGap property in ParallelAssembly only takes a single value, which means the gap between cells ends up being the same in all directions. There's no built-in way to set a different gap for X and Y separately, and you also can't manually define the position of each individual cell within the assembly.

A couple of things you could try as a workaround:

If your gaps are only slightly different, you could use an average gap value as a rough approximation.

Switching to a Square topology instead of Hexagonal might give you a bit more control over how the rows and columns are spaced, though it still won't let you set X and Y gaps independently.

Honestly, the best move here would be to submit a feature request to MathWorks directly. This seems like a legitimate design need for real-world battery packs, and they've been adding new features to the Battery Pack Builder regularly. There's a good chance they'd consider it.

Hope that helps — feel free to follow up if you have more questions!