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simulation of bevel gears using contact rather than transitional constraints

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martinmmcd
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simulation of bevel gears using contact rather than transitional constraints

Sorry if this is a very basic question but have been stuck on this for a few days now:  I'm trying to run a simulation of 2 bevel gears without using the transitional/rotation constraint, but using the contact between the surfaces to simulate the rotation of the gears - basically I have an L-shaped shaft running through both centers and want to have the upper gear grounded, make the lateral gear rotate around its own axis - the goal is simply to see the contact between the gears make the side gear rotate around the  vertical part of the l-shaped shaft, due to the contact forces.  I think I may need to review the definition of contact types, but not really sure what to do.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

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JDMather
in reply to: martinmmcd

Why not use the Rotational/Translation constraint?

Did you model the gears or are they Design Accelerator created?

The DA gears are approximations and probably won't work well with Contact Sets as they already interfer.

 

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martinmmcd
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Hi JD,

 

thanks for the reply - that makes sense, there's just too much interference, I'll see if I can't get the same result using the constraints.

 

Martin

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jerryyang95130
in reply to: JDMather

use drive constraint instead!

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