I'm working on a slot together crocodile mechanism. There is a clockwork motor with a dog legged arm that is used to drive the mechanism . The arm fits into a slot in a piece of card which in turn moves back and forth opening and closing the crocs jaws.
My question is, how do I link the rotation of the clockwork motor to the slot in the card and in turn to the back and forth motion of the slider piece.
Thanks in advance!
Before creating joints, we first need to address the two Elephants in the room:
1. Your sketches are not properly constrained and dimensioned.
2. All the body move operations in your timeline. In a design like this you should not move bodies, but use joints to assemble parts to properly locate and orient them.
There might be a third Elephant, which is that most of the geometry that should be stationary is not assembled/joined properly and can be dragged around freely in the viewport.
