Actuator's slide motion does not work in conjuction with a rigid motion as I expected (EASY TO SOLVE

[aferiaNLGTK]

Hey Fusions friends,

I might be missing something basic regarding the combination of these joints that I want to achieve, it's very simple, 2 actuators, the pistons are attached to the ground part (rigid joint), the actuators body are attached to the floating part (rigid joint), but when I extend the actuator to see the motion's display, the actuator doesn't lift the floating part up as I expected.

Any suggestion?

Thanks in advance!

Screencast video Link:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/9fb963f9-ef53-4731-9008-7b3fd6716d83

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

normally, we'd need the design to figure this out.  But, in this case, I suspect I know what is going on.  The "Animate" button in the Joint command, and in the Edit Joint Limits command does not animate the entire mechanism.  It only animates the components that are directly joined together.  I suspect that if you use Drive Joint, or Animate Model, or simple component drag, your design is fine.  See the screencast: