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Let a wheel roll in a randomly shaped rail
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As you can see in the attachment (which is a small test version of my full project) do I have a problem..
The wheels on the side need to roll inside the guide rail. I can let them roll in each part separately but not in the entire rail.
I already tried with transitional constrains but then inventor says that there are some problems.
My project needs to become a sectional gate so there's going te be lots more than just 2 wheels in it...
Hope someone can explane me how to constrain this movement
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Re: Let a wheel roll in a randomly shaped rail
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Try creating a continuous surface (as a seperate part) on the inside of the guide rails.
Constrain the wheels to this surface instead of the rails.
Turn the visibilty of the surface off as needed.
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Don't double post. It's bad karma..
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Mpatchus: The rail is made by sweeping along a continous axis but in the assembly it always gets divided.. How can i make a continuous surface that wont divided in the assembly?
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Well, I guss you want to get a animation, I prefer to use Inventor Dynamic Simulation to get such kind movement.
You can leverage the joint (sliding:Curve & Point), attached please fiind the iam file , I made some changes on your dataset, simpliified the assembly and modified the guiderail part, since it requires a close loop.
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Jingyi Liu
Quality Assurance Team
Autodesk
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Also modified attached part to create a sketch point.
Jingyi Liu
Quality Assurance Team
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