Just a question, and of course I have not seen the assembly, but do you
really need simulation for this? If it's just torque and speed, some quick
hand calcs should give you what you need.
I just would not want you spending a lot of time on simulation when a pen
and paper would be quicker.
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Sean Dotson, PE
RND Automation & Engineering
www.RNDautomation.com
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"Stephan Rose" wrote in message
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I have a motor with a 66:1 gearbox attached to it, and wanted to do
some simulations with applying a torque to the output shaft of the
motor to see how the assembly behaves.
Running into one problem though, and that is that I can't seem to find
a way to tell the dynamic simulation the releationship between the
output shaft of the motor and the output shaft of the gearbox.
In the standard assembly I can do this just fine with the rotation
constraint, but in the simulation there doesn't appear to be such a
constraint.
I also tried to convert the assembly constraint and I get the
following error from DS: The type of joint obtained by mates
translating is unknown!
So, is there any way for me to tell DS the gear ratio of the two
shafts without actually modelling the internals of the gearbox?
Thanks,