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Motion constraint

Motion constraint - Inventor Tutorial

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Motion constraint

- [Voiceover] In this movie, we're going to look at how we can create rotary-to-rotary motion and rotary-to-linear motion. On the screen you can see Gears - Complete.iam and 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 going to drive from zero to 1080, and I'm going to click the double arrows to expand the additional information. And you can see that we're going to drive this in one degree increments, and that's what we want. I'm going to 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, and right now we're going to drive from zero to 1080 degrees. If we click the double…

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