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How to run a car on a Figure-of-8 track?
yip_cm
Member Posts: 12 ✭
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Here is my sketch:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/3fd14ef30a845668d58cd449/w/76f214f58f9b71f97c7e4279/e/e3fb14813f9942dc4709cc68
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In this copy, i got the cart to go and stay flat on the whole figure-of-8. it is also related to the carts going around the circle track, but they turn around when the second loop of the 8 is started and therefore the animate of the revolute isn't working yet.
my time is up so good luck figuring that out. it's getting close though!
I thought of a gear relation, to a planar mate on the vertical cart guider, but that doesn't work somehow.
I added a composite curve that approximates your helix/bridge curves to improve on the tangency to get it all to work. the bridge curves where just tangent, but the swept edge on the other side of the top face was insufficiently tangent to allow tangent mate 5 to go all around…
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/1223ff208772fc036fab1e68/w/e3191746f4dc9f2f2ab49eb1/e/6fce9a1c35ab8088686496bd?renderMode=0&uiState=684a86155854d0479d6aeca1
Problem solved, thanks for your comments and idea.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/3fd14ef30a845668d58cd449/w/76f214f58f9b71f97c7e4279/e/e3fb14813f9942dc4709cc68
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