Hello, I am a mechanical engineering student, and I recently started learning CAD and I’ve been modeling while watching YouTube tutorials. The modeling part is done, but I have absolutely no idea how to use links and joints to create the actual motion. Let me explain the overall mechanism first.
There is a plate that moves up and down, and when this plate comes down, it pushes an incoming object to the side. Both the vertical movement and the horizontal movement are controlled by cams. For the up-and-down motion, a lever is attached to the cam, so as the cam rotates, the lever is lifted, and the plate connected to the lever moves upward.
The cam that handles the left-right motion is gear-linked to the vertical-motion cam at a 90-degree phase difference, so the timing between the vertical and horizontal motions can be synchronized by design.
I connected as many links as I could, but I keep getting errors, and sometimes the lag becomes insanely bad. I’m honestly going crazy because I can’t figure out what’s causing these issues. I would be incredibly grateful if you could tell me how to fix this.
p.s. I will aslo the hand sketch that I drew.
