From the course: Modeling a Motorcycle Engine with SOLIDWORKS

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Chain assembly

Chain assembly

- If you've added the additional cam shaft gears from the previous video, your design should now look similar to mine. I have saved a version though to this stage in the lesson file as 03 05 Top Level Assembly Finish, if you prefer to use that as a starting point. Now I've already prepared a chain subassembly for use in our design. Now go ahead and insert components in the top level assembly and lets find this chain assembly and place a single instance into the graphics view. In this subassembly, I have added a simple non-realistic chain which serves only the purpose for graphical representation. However, if you study the assembly file, you will see how I have achieved this result and can use a similar methodology if you need to create a chain of your own. The gears are simply derivitives from our sprocket model covered in previous videos. Now let's go ahead and add a concentric mate between the small gear and the flywheel shaft. We'll make these two faces coincident to align the gear…

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