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Mate axle in oversized hole - How to align axle to top of hole
mathieu_viales
Member Posts: 3 ✭
Hi,
I can't figure out how to get the spool to look like it's "droped" onto the axle ? A tangent mate doesn't enable me to constrain which part of the hole it should join to.
I was hoping to find a constrain for "make the pool move as far towards the base (turquoise) as is allowed by the existing mates (tangent between axle (red) and spool hole (purple)". This does not appear to exist. I feel OnShape doesn't have the tools I need to achieve what I want, which makes me think I'm probably going about this in a way that isn't intended to be suported.
What is the OnShape-intended approach to achieve an assembly that visually looks like gravity has acted on the spool and made it drop down onto the axle ?
Thank you
Comments
If you're just going for appearances, I think you could create an alignment sketch in your part studio to bring into the assembly to get things lined up correctly.
A tangent constraint is sure a way to go, but you'll need a combination of the tangent and some other constraint that keeps ypur axle in the center. A planar mate with a mid plane (represented by a Verticaly oriented MC) comes to mind here.