How do you mate a sphere in a conical cavity?

paul_ragot

Assembly consists of 1 conical cavity and 1 ball.
How do you mate them so that the ball is tangent inside the conical cavity?
See public document 'sphere in conical seat'

Thank you,
Paul

NeilCooke

Cylindrical using the mate connectors along the axis of the cone (mate connector on the top of the sphere, mate connector on the top face of the cylinder), then tangent (but had to flip the tangency using the arrow bottom left of the tangency dialog).

NeilCooke

paul_ragot

I must have answered myself with a blank answer, but this question is still unanswered.

paul_ragot

Got a work-around:
ball:create a mate connector on sphere centre
seat: sketch circle of ball diameter tangent to cone-create mate connector on that circle centre
mate the 2 connectors by fastener.

however, this method only works for 1 ball diameter, not for any size.

AP

I was able to get a ball to sit down in a cone by combining a tangent mate and slider mate, and the ball stays in place if its diameter changes.

paul_ragot

I doing that on the example, it does not seem to work.
Thanks.

paul_ragot

Here is the hydrostatic bearing. I used connector mates to assemble both sphere and cup to the conical seat.
If anybody can find another way using different types of mates, I'd like to know.
Thanks.

NeilCooke

Cylindrical using the mate connectors along the axis of the cone (mate connector on the top of the sphere, mate connector on the top face of the cylinder), then tangent (but had to flip the tangency using the arrow bottom left of the tangency dialog).

paul_ragot

Neil,

Thanks. Still requires to create the extra mate connector on the sphere ( I guess we cannot avoid this), but better.

NeilCooke

Shouldn't need to, you could use the mate connector from the origin of the sphere or if you hover over the sphere one should appear.

NeilCooke

paul_ragot

Neil,

Thanks, this is exactly what I wanted.