Hi all-
I have an assembly which contains sub-assemblies that have both sliding and revolute joints. I can adjust the positions of these joints in the top level assembly by clicking and dragging with the mouse, but often I get both sliding AND revolution when I only want one or the other. Very frustrating!
Is there a way to (temporarily) fix one joint in a sub-assembly while adjusting another (while in the top level assembly)?
And...I can't drive a joint in a sub-assembly to a certain angle from within the top level assembly?
Here's my dream: to be able to have a set of user-created buttons that activate a specific joint to move between specified ranges at a given speed. That way, I could 'animate' the various joints in a complicated assembly separately. This would go a long, long way toward both designing the multiple joint interactions AND showing other people how the whole thing works in a step-by-step fashion.
I have looked into the Animation tab, but unless I'm missing something it does not appear to animate joints...! I mean, it's great if you want to show how something goes together...but what about if you just want to show a set of steps involving joints? I hope I'm missing something obvious, because it sure seems like something that would be extremely useful!
thanks,
Patrick
