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Drive position of pullies by belt length
Oliver_Nicholls
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eric_pesty
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Not sure there's a simple way to "drive" the length, the math isn't trivial.
The closest I can think is to use a "measure" feature to display the belt length and use the "final" button to get it to update "live" as you edit the sketch.
This makes it fairly easy to get what you want "one time" but won't help you if you want it to adjust automatically...
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/9044389820d6c6ade10c747e/w/8150185d2901bb76d53dc501/e/95c2a41e4c3c3945c50fcec1
Edit: thinking out loud but I do wonder if it would be possible to do a "goal seek" Featurescript that would automatically adjust one variable until another one reached a certain value... Don't know of the top of my head if FS can actually access "dowstream" data. I'm guessing not but I could be wrong. Maybe it could be built into the measure tool instead: give it a variable to change (upstream one) and a target value for the measured items maybe?
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The closest I can think is to use a "measure" feature to display the belt length and use the "final" button to get it to update "live" as you edit the sketch.
This makes it fairly easy to get what you want "one time" but won't help you if you want it to adjust automatically...
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/9044389820d6c6ade10c747e/w/8150185d2901bb76d53dc501/e/95c2a41e4c3c3945c50fcec1
Edit: thinking out loud but I do wonder if it would be possible to do a "goal seek" Featurescript that would automatically adjust one variable until another one reached a certain value... Don't know of the top of my head if FS can actually access "dowstream" data. I'm guessing not but I could be wrong. Maybe it could be built into the measure tool instead: give it a variable to change (upstream one) and a target value for the measured items maybe?