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How to simulate gravity in assembly.

anton_corba984
anton_corba984 Member Posts: 1 ✭
in Community Support
I am constructing a very simple device which is essentially cloth tension device which has a manually operated rod whit ratchet wheel and a pin to stop it from moving backward. I believe i managed to model all the parts of an assembly and join them with respective joins. I would love to see how the pin fits to the ratchet wheel in the circular motion. I couldn't find a function to apply either gravity on pin to naturally fall onto wheel and move up and down the teeth as the wheel turns. Is there any way to simulate this?

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  • rune_thorsen
    rune_thorsen Member Posts: 7 ✭
    This would really be a great thing. It would require some implementation of collision detection I think. I would see it as a single weight that could be applied to objects
  • TimRice
    TimRice Member, Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 315 image
    edited January 2017
    Currently there is no way to simulate gravity in assemblies. Depending on the geometry, you may be able to use the tangent mate to simulate the contact. If you could make the document public and share a link here we could take a look.
    Tim Rice | User Experience | Support 
    Onshape, Inc.
  • mike_zilai
    mike_zilai Member Posts: 2 PRO
    This would help immensely
  • Dylan_Mason
    Dylan_Mason Member Posts: 1 ✭
    The tangent mate works very well.
  • john_mcclary
    john_mcclary Member, Developers Posts: 4,102 PRO
    Gravity is just a theory...  ;)


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