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Motion constraint

Motion constraint - Inventor Tutorial

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Motion constraint

- In this movie, we're gonna look at how we can create rotary to rotary motion and rotary to linear motion. On the screen, you can see Gears - Complete.iam. This is a model I created so you can see the final results of what we're about to create. If we expand Gear:1 in the browser, I have an Angle constraint that you can right click on and select Drive to see this motion. I'm gonna drive from 0 to 1080 and I'm gonna click the double arrows to expand the additional information. You can see that we're gonna drive this in 1 deg increments, and that's what we want. I'm gonna simply hit Play so that you can see the motion. Here we have the center gear rotating and the outer gears rotating in the opposite direction causing this motion of the stage to ride down the shaft. If you right click on Angle:2 and select Drive, you can see that we get our Drive dialogue. Right now we're gonna from 0 to 1080 deg. If we click the double arrow, you can see that we're also gonna drive at 1 deg…

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