Help with animating for School Project

simon_dwyer

Hello, can anyone please help me with my Onshape? I have to animate a model in which when pushing in this:
 Will rotate this:

 at the same time. Here is a link to the project: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/de5a9ea034f9e95cb6a1f492/w/9a8f152301e919cdd7b08cb8/e/d88d746f838e7ea5ad7582fe .
Help would be greatly appreciated.

MBartlett21

@simon_dwyer
You can use a Rack and Pinion relation (assuming you are using a slider and a revolute mate)
https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/materelation-rackandpinion.htm

simon_dwyer

Can you please provide a video tutorial.

Jake_Rosenfeld

@simon_dwyer

There is a video example in that help page that Morgan shared, under Desktop and then Video Example.  Here is some additional documentation about all of our relations (which is the sort of thing you are trying to get at; motion in mate A affects mate B is a called a mate relation on Onshape terminology):
https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/relations.htm

simon_dwyer

I still don't get it.

Jake_Rosenfeld

Maybe this webinar could help?

https://www.onshape.com/videos/advanced-assembly-motion-in-onshape-03-13-18

owen_sparks

Looks like you've not set your document to public so we can't jump in and demo it for you.

So

(Step 1) Set ordinary mates for the part you want to move.  From the screengrab it looks like you're making a pinball machine?  So probably a revolute for the flipper and a slider for the button.

(Step 2) Set limits for those mates, so they can only move as far as you want them to.

(Step 3) Set a "relation" between the mates you made above.  In this case the rack and pinion so when you press the button the flipper moves.

Hope that helps,

Owen S.