How to make indicator for dimensions?

Lasse_5

I made test case with camshaft. I want to save linear distance of lifter move related to camshaft rotation degrees for full 360 degree rotation. Is this somehow easily made in onshape or should I dive in to featurescript? 
Example: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/c85919f5e792e3479147e966/w/cb0ad8ba11ee8da2b3897b1f/e/f3c74d65da86cb90d7d9da0f?renderMode=0&uiState=62990f4b6164fb05c89bab1e

Lasse_5

This is probably working link:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/c85919f5e792e3479147e966/w/cb0ad8ba11ee8da2b3897b1f/e/f3c74d65da86cb90d7d9da0f?renderMode=0&uiState=629910576164fb05c89bab79

Lasse_5

If link is working, you can rotate cam and see lifter movement. So, my question is how I can save data from this movement?

shawn_crocker

I can't say with full certainty but not in an assembly. I'm not sure what you will be doing with the values but I think you could achieve what you want using a configured part studio sketch that you bring into the assembly and drive with assembly configs. You could mate assembly parts to this sketch. I'm only imagining your full intent here though.

Lasse_5

To be more specific I like to know place of lifter in every 360 degrees of cam rotation. So I can get cam profile if I design a cam.

Lasse_5

In Solidworks you can plot motion. Very useful tool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoRA_Z1_pzU

Hans_Leirvik_1

If you make a configured part that changes according to some input values, you can show the part in a drawing view and dimension it to show the data you need.
Then you can change the configuration in the view to the next angle and the dimensions will update accordingly.

Lasse_5

Hans_Leirvik_1 said:

If you make a configured part that changes according to some input values, you can show the part in a drawing view and dimension it to show the data you need.
Then you can change the configuration in the view to the next angle and the dimensions will update accordingly.

Sure, I can also take direct measurements from model. But that's lot of work to measure 360 degrees or more manually.

It would be great if you could make a table where there would be automatic measurements in different configurations.
Example:

Hans_Leirvik_1

Hi again

Have you noticed that Onshaped released new functionality in August 30, Driven Variables ??
I believe this is what you are asking for .. ?

I just saw that you can not show Driven variables in a configuration table. It would be nice if they can be listed there as Read Only.
Maybe you should send this as an impovement proposal to support ???