I've been working on this for 3 weeks now, I have a cam and a follower, pretty straight forward, what I'd like to do is have a slot in the cam and a post on the follower so that I can have the follower rotate 90 degrees. to get the rotation the post is .1061 offset from the center of the follower. The problem is that a swept cut is always normal to the trajectory, the post is actually offset from the tangent point. Does this makes sense?
the cam is split into 4 quadrants, radius .25 and .344 on opposite sides connected by a spline (rho=.4) for the translations. I need to rotate my follower 90 degrees in the radiused sections.... I'm at my whits end of trying this and that (enough so that I finally shelled out the money for a pro. membership to this site)
Thanks in advance!!!
Keith
the cam is split into 4 quadrants, radius .25 and .344 on opposite sides connected by a spline (rho=.4) for the translations. I need to rotate my follower 90 degrees in the radiused sections.... I'm at my whits end of trying this and that (enough so that I finally shelled out the money for a pro. membership to this site)
Thanks in advance!!!
Keith