gear motion

hi everyone,


I need to make two coupled gears moving, and i thought to some different solutions:


1. to give no constrains between the gears, and use 2 different motors, one for each gear, with the correct transmission ratio


2. to give a friction constrain between the 2 primitive surfaces, as to realize 2 friction gears, using a single motor applied to the input gear


3. to give a contact constrain between the opponent surfaces of 2 teeth, and apply a single driving motor


too easy to be true...


I have no problem in the first solution realization (2 different motors),


But, i don't know how to implement the other 2 solutions,does anyone have an idea?


thank you all

A better solution is to use a Gear Pairconstraintbetween the two gears. In WF2, while in the mechanism mode select the icon that shows 2 gears meshed. This option is new to WF and not availiable in 2001.


Good Luck.

oh! yes, you are right!


i wanted to create a join between the 2 gears in the standard mode, but it doesn't make sense!


thank you very much