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Follow a curve in assembly?
vanowm
Member Posts: 50 ✭✭
Hello.
Is there a way restrict movement of a part to follow predefined curve?
Here is a test
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/96a6b74d7a31dfa5030c1877/v/e277d1cf7dc70e8fcde0c8fe/e/66dbaff92a3692ba5e95edcd?renderMode=0&tangentEdgeStyle=1&uiState=68559b9e8eadb136d9171975
Thank you
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eric_pesty
Member Posts: 2,212 PRO
Your path needs to be a single curve (you can create a fit spline from you sketch geometry) and then you can use a tangent mate between a vertex and the path.
That won't lock rotation so you will need more constraints for that (like multiple vertices following the path or an external "parallel", or you instead of just a curve you cand use a surface and have edge be tangent instead to it instead of just a vertex.1
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Your path needs to be a single curve (you can create a fit spline from you sketch geometry) and then you can use a tangent mate between a vertex and the path.
That won't lock rotation so you will need more constraints for that (like multiple vertices following the path or an external "parallel", or you instead of just a curve you cand use a surface and have edge be tangent instead to it instead of just a vertex.
Thank you!
I couldn't make spline in sketch precise enough as the 2 lines and an arc, so I used routing curve tool, which made close-enough spline curve and then created surface from it.
It works great:
Assembly: follow curve v2