How to create trigger assembly?
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Hi @Anonymous,
Good questions. For "Is there even a way making components act like under pressure?". The answer here is yes. Use the "Rest" position of the Joint Limits. This acts as a kind of a spring on the joint, which wants to return to this position.
Here is a screencast showing the behavior for a slider joint with a rest position in effect:
That's the easy question. Your first question: "if it is possible to create something similar to a trigger assembly where one component's movement is restricted by another one getting in the way" is a bit harder.
For simple assemblies, Contact Sets can work. There are performance problems, though, for larger assemblies. Here is a quick screencast showing contact sets:
However, as you see from the screencast, Rest + Contact Sets does not produce what you think it should.
There are other capabilities, such as Motion Link and Motion Study that can help, but I don't think they are particularly applicable to your goals. Motion Study might be - I'll put together another screecast to illustrate with this simple example.
That's about the limit of what Fusion can do today. It is not really a physics-based dynamic simulation environment, but using some tricks, you can do a pretty good job of illustrating motion in an assembly.
Jeff
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
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Sorry for the delay. Here is an approach using Motion Study. This is not physics-based at all, but if you are careful, you can emulate the behavior. Hopefully you get the idea.
Enjoy!
Jeff
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director