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Tangent mate on half circle and line
sam_one
Member Posts: 19 ✭
Hi, i'm trying to mate the hole in the little gear to the path in the sketch, so that it follows it. To do this I'm using a tangent mate. When mating, I can only select one line segment. So I clicked the half circle. But that means that my gear can now only move about the half circle, and when I drag it to the right, it follows the imaginary other half of the half circle instead of the straight line.
I watched this video: https://youtu.be/-cGwhKbZhQI
in the video, they also use quite a complex path, but I think that the difference is that theirs is made up of a single line segment. Mine isn't a single curve, it's a combination of half circles and straight lines. How then do I use the tangent mate in my situation?
Red is the path that it takes, green is the path that it should take.
here's my document: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/2fbeb03d5ad93868eac009b0/w/3114b071349572cd89a36f85/e/977d6cd89b479c75087e1592