Measure angles with moving joints

[Anonymous]

Hello guys,

I'm new to Fusion360 (less than 2 weeks of experience) but i have worked for many years with other CAD software (especially PTC CREO). I am working on a crank-slide like mechanism and I am trying to plot one angle respectively to another. In CREO there is a way to plot this really easily, but I did not find one in Fusion....

To say it differently, I'm moving one revolute joint and I want to measure the angle of another revolute joint driven by the first one. As the angles of the different joints are show on the assembly, I could just take some points and plot this but it's really a bad way to do it in my opinion. Is there a  better way to measure this ? If not, I think I just have to take value as interpolate this but I hope there is a tool I did not found as it would be much faster and much easier.

Thanks for your time and your help

Luc

PS: can't show you screenshots of my real work so I did the attached video with a random crank-slider to illustrate my problem

[davebYYPCU]

The video shows a piston, crank and conrod, 

I have not worked out your problem.  Any measured angle would come from a sketch, surely?

Move either blue line the angle is read in the driven dimension.

Might help....

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Thanks for the answer but I might not have been clear enough. I made a new video using CREO to show you what I really want to do. The problem is that I cannot use a sketch to measure it as my system is not planar (it's a 3D system with a conrod with 2 ball joints that moves 2 objects around revolute joints). So I used the piston, crank and conrod system to illustrate it

Thanks for your time

Luc

[TheCADWhisperer · Accepted solution]

Autodesk Inventor Professional>Dynamic Simulation is the equivalent of that CREO functionality.

https://autode.sk/3wkoQi5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtwhTMrJDCg&list=PLp5izJt_zvN08mpY4UcYrzJV2N6QOLAIR&index=26

[Anonymous]

thanks for the answer ! So it will not be possible to do this directly with Fusion and I will have to use Inventor...

[TheCADWhisperer · Accepted solution]

Fusion 360 does not have this functionality.