Creating Cylindrical Joints

This task shows you how to create cylindrical joints.
You created a mechanism and 3 revolute joints as shown in the previous task.

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  1. Click Cylindrical Joint I_CylindricalJntP2.gif (235 bytes) .
    The Joint Creation: Cylindrical dialog box appears:

  2. Select Line 1 in the geometry area. In our example select a cylinder as shown below:

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    The dialog box is automatically updated with your selection.

  3. Select Line 2 in the geometry area. In our example select a cylinder as shown below:

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    The dialog box is automatically updated with your selection.

  4. Click OK to end the cylindrical joint creation.

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    The cylindrical joint is created as well as the constraints.
    The specification tree is updated.

    You can assign a command to a cylindrical joint either:

    • Angle driven command

    • Length driven command

    all you need to do is select the appropriate check box.

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Remember: at any time you can  modify the command. For this, double-click the joint in the specification tree and edit the settings in  the displayed dialog box. For more details, refer to Editing joints.