Hello 3DCAD Forums,
New member, first post I am using SW2010.
My question: Do I need to do anything special to my assembly in order for SW to consider centrifugal forces?
I have a rotating disk with two face-mounted pegs near its edge spaced 180-degrees apart. I then have two beams with one hole on the end of each beam that fits over each peg. I've added a rotary motor to the disk and set some arbitrary RPM, say 500. I give a material to everything, say 1020 Steel.
Using Motion Analysis, what happens is that when the motion begins, the arms immediately move inwards towards the center and then rotate back out -- and back around again, indefinitely. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure they would move outward by centrifugal force and would eventually remain straight out forever (since it's a constant speed), not continue to rotate around and around and around forever.
I've done this with the pegs on the leading side of the arms (where the pegs are pulling the arms) and with them at the trailed side (where the pegs are pushing the arms), I've done really fast RPMs, I've added gravity, all no change
Am I going crazy or is there some setting I'm supposed to enable before SW will consider centrifugal forces?
Thank you very, very much in advance!
Huusoku
New member, first post I am using SW2010.
My question: Do I need to do anything special to my assembly in order for SW to consider centrifugal forces?
I have a rotating disk with two face-mounted pegs near its edge spaced 180-degrees apart. I then have two beams with one hole on the end of each beam that fits over each peg. I've added a rotary motor to the disk and set some arbitrary RPM, say 500. I give a material to everything, say 1020 Steel.
Using Motion Analysis, what happens is that when the motion begins, the arms immediately move inwards towards the center and then rotate back out -- and back around again, indefinitely. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure they would move outward by centrifugal force and would eventually remain straight out forever (since it's a constant speed), not continue to rotate around and around and around forever.
I've done this with the pegs on the leading side of the arms (where the pegs are pulling the arms) and with them at the trailed side (where the pegs are pushing the arms), I've done really fast RPMs, I've added gravity, all no change
Am I going crazy or is there some setting I'm supposed to enable before SW will consider centrifugal forces?
Thank you very, very much in advance!
Huusoku
Last edited: