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Pressure on pusher/cam assembly
Hello, I want to create a constraint between 2 cam / trajectory following type parts Piece One (blue) rotates Piece 2 (yellow) makes a translation Position 1 Position 2 Tangent constraint does not work → volume or surface Path constraint does not work → the contac…
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Visualization Cube
Hello everybody! Here is a request for the VISUALIZATION CUBE... I have assemblies of various shapes and sizes. Attached is a document to understand the problem: PIECE - CUBE VISUALIZATION. SLDPRT (88.9 KB) The preview of the piece: The room with the top plan: …
Benoît_Bouillon
Repeating Sketches of Different Sizes
Hello friends, I would like to draw an airplane propeller and for that I was going to start from a profile (sketch) that I would repeat on different planes at different angles and sizes. Do you have a link or the outline to get to that?
FSL
Pressure on pusher/cam assembly
Hello, I want to create a constraint between 2 cam / trajectory following type parts Piece One (blue) rotates Piece 2 (yellow) makes a translation Position 1 Position 2 Tangent constraint does not work → volume or surface Path constraint does not work → the contac…
MLG
Visualization Cube
Hello everybody! Here is a request for the VISUALIZATION CUBE... I have assemblies of various shapes and sizes. Attached is a document to understand the problem: PIECE - CUBE VISUALIZATION. SLDPRT (88.9 KB) The preview of the piece: The room with the top plan: …
Benoît_Bouillon
Repeating Sketches of Different Sizes
Hello friends, I would like to draw an airplane propeller and for that I was going to start from a profile (sketch) that I would repeat on different planes at different angles and sizes. Do you have a link or the outline to get to that?
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