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.

  1. Click Cylindrical Joint .
    The Joint Creation: Cylindrical dialog box appears.

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

    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:

    The dialog box is automatically updated with your selection.

  4. Click OK.

    The cylindrical joint creation.

    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.

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.