Globoidal Cams

[JackWendorf6760]

Has anybody design a globiodal cam in inventor 10, if so whats the best pratice to designing this cam?

thanks

Jack Wendorf

[mpatchus · Accepted solution]

There was a pretty good paper published awhile back in the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology 18 2008.  It described several different modeling methods.

Here's a link to the paper.

http://www.waset.org/journals/waset/v18/v18-29.pdf

[JDMather · Accepted solution]

Are you using Inventor 10 or are you really using Inventor 2010?

This cylindrical cam tutorial (there is a Cylindrical Cam tool directly in later releases of Inventor) along with the previously posted link might get you started to a solution.  Attach your file and cam specifications here if you get stuck.

http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/content/DSG322/Inventor%20Tutorials/Inventor%2011%20Tutorial%2011.pdf

This is a more general method that might be adaptable to your need rather than the built in tool in later releases.

[JackWendorf6760]

Thanks

[JackWendorf6760]

2010, thanks

[levi.rossK3FEC]

Could you post another link to this I would like to view this as well and I get an error as if the page has been removed? 

[JDMather]

A lot has changed in Inventor since this was written - there might be a better way in current release.

Attach your attempt here if you get stuck.

[levi.rossK3FEC]

Thank you!