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Trying a Clock Ratchet and Wheel assembly with motion
paul_yeomans
Member Posts: 5 EDU
Can you get the parts to move with say a tangent mate of some sort, I have tried it with a tangent mate but will only move within one tooth
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Because your ratchet face is cut back sharply, then the ratchet would need to reverse direction for a moment in order to maintain tangency with the pawl.
That make sense?
I have tried a number of fixes like fillets on teeth to give tangent profile plus 1 deg cut back and using just the vertex point on pawl obviously using tangent mate it seems to only go 1 deg in a loop - would you have to have a path like attached and make phantom part? not too sure of profile needed
I have tried a number of fixes like fillets on teeth to give tangent profile plus 1 deg cut back and using just the vertex point on pawl obviously using tangent mate it seems to only go 1 deg in a loop - would you have to have a path like attached and make phantom part?