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Trace curve is the coolest function I've seen in a while.
I had to design a new deep sump oil pan for a small block Chevy, after I modeled the entire engine I used Mechanism Design to cycle the engine.
I put a point on the very most outer intersection between the rod cap and the oil pan, thenI would run a trace curve on every cylinder giving me a perfect elliptical path to show me where to put the stroker notches.
well ek- I wondered- i figured it was to do some kinda transfer of a curve to 2D media (a drawing sheet)- this sounds like its worthy of some additional exploration.
There was an example in my workbook that showed a crane going thru a motion of picking up dirt, lifting vertically, swinging to the right, then dumping the dirt, and they did a 3-d trace curve of that motion with the fixed point ontop of the bucket.
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