topic Re: Pendulum clock making in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Pendulum clock making

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:04:51 GMT

Hii Can you please help me .
I have to make a WORKING pendulum cloak in fusion ,which should store power in spring and work for some hours. I have no clue about some of the things which are necessary for this project like how can i use circular spring to store power and in Animation all the joint made are useless so how will i present my project to them , also we have to make a gong mechanism in that clock so gong and pendulum will not work until gravity will be present which is only possible in solidworks but we have to show that in fusion .

Re: Pendulum clock making

Brady_Fulton — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:07:51 GMT

Have to make a real one, or just represent it?

Re: Pendulum clock making

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:17:57 GMT

Real one working cloak

Re: Pendulum clock making

jasonhomrighaus — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:30:00 GMT

Wouldn't you be able to show the function in the event simulation space?

Re: Pendulum clock making

Brady_Fulton — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:34:26 GMT

Sorry, I'm just dense. Are you making a physical clock or just simulating the movements/actions in Fusion 360?

The animation work space will handle the motion control, you don't need gravity to animate the pendulum motion.

Here's a post from awhile back that might help: https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/fusion-360-animation-deep-dive/

Re: Pendulum clock making

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:36:59 GMT

No
I have tried to do something in motion study , i made a Gear Train and connected all the gear using joints and joint link then the used animation option to check whether it works or not and then i used transform on 1 gear and thought that because of joint and motion link all of them will work but it didn't happened and the only gear on which i used transform rotated by the amount of angle i specified for 3 sec.
Also how gravity can be used as environment is question 4 me.please check if u can help.

Re: Pendulum clock making

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:41:27 GMT

Actually i have to make a gong mechanism also which will require gravity to work means we have to show right no. of ding dongs at each hour so gravity is needed.
I dont know what they want from us can u please see the attached image.

Re: Pendulum clock making

Brady_Fulton — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:50:41 GMT

Ooh, 11/3 delivery, nice 🙂

Take a look in the gallery, see if you can find a model like this one to study and figure out your own design:

Clock by Mike Zhang #Fusion360 https://gallery.autodesk.com/fusion360/projects/clock-1

I don't see anything that says you can't use solidworks, or requires the "animation" to be mechanically linked motion to motion. Do individual motions in the animation and move on, of course it's not my grade on the line.

Re: Pendulum clock making

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 21:15:55 GMT

That clock does not contain any gear or motion link that is only working on animation may be .
See if u can help because i have searched a lot already made a lot of parts but eventually come to a single conclusion that spiral spring can not be made in fusion and animation can not be applied on joint, also if will only present my watch on the basis of animation there will not be a point in make a lot of gears and eventually this will be animation based project which will use some video editing skills not CAD skills .
If it is not possible to make a watch like want then please tell me because if a watch that i am expecting is not possible then i have already done my part for the project ,but if you know something that i can do to make my watch real then please tell me because i want to give my best.
Thank you

Re: Pendulum clock making

Brady_Fulton — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 21:26:44 GMT

I don't know if what you're after is possible (stored potential energy), so I see three options:

Research animation in Fusion 360 and create a deliverable, real or fake it will move and look like it's working.
Research an alternate software package that you're confident in and make it there
Give up and deliver nothing (I don't think your team would like this one)

Re: Pendulum clock making

lichtzeichenanlage — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 21:26:51 GMT

@Brady_Fulton: It looks like the clock is empty