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Marble Lift
T_Rathier
Member Posts: 47 EDU
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I am trying to create a simple mechanism to lift a marble 48" to the top of a marble machine. I have created the helical screw and a marble. But, how do I have the marble follow the helix? My thought was to create a part with just a sketch of the center axis and a helix on it and then import it as a path for the marble to follow. However, importing the part only imports the sketch and not the helix. What is the best practice for this?
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just use the helix tool to apply the helix to a cylinder face. not sure what your trying to import or why. off the top of my head you could have a 'lift bucket' with a thread in it to follow a screw thread up the 48" of lift.
kind of an abstract question tbh. maybe you can provide more detail on what your trying to do and what you have tried and are having trouble with.
My thought was to just make a helical path and constrain the marble center to the path.
oh, are you asking in the context of making an assembly and making the marble follow a helical path?
But the marble should only slide up right? it rolls upwards as the helix rotates, but stays on it's own linear path?
So a simple screw relation should do. first make a slide or cilindrical mate for the slider and a revolute for the screw.
Yes, In the context of an assembly.
I thought of the screw relation, which in theory is what this is. I can apply a slide constraint, but the screw constraint wants a cylinder. How do you apply a cylindrical mate to a sphere?
jelte's suggestion makes the most sense to me. for some reason I was thinking you needed it to roll up the helix. I tend to over complicate things. haha… . add a mate connector to the sphere in part mode. using origin as the mate location. then make the mate relationship in assembly using that new mate connnector