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Hello David, Although I am also inexperienced with Mechanism, perhaps sharing my experiences so far might help. I was not able to define a contact between the cam surface and my follower (I tried cam connection and 3d contact). It seems the cam connection only works for radial cams. It also...

Thank you for your reply hydromech. This is actually what I do now - I use a slot constraint to constrain the centre point of the ball to the trajectory curve of the cam profile, as you suggest. This trajectory is set up so that the centre point of the ball is positioned exactly where it would...

P.S. an image is attached showing what I am talking about.http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=e8b011d6-0417-4cc0-baaa-5753c9366e13&file=Illustration.jpg

Hi, I'm new to the forum and new to Pro/e mechanism. I have searched the forum and the internet for possible solutions to my problem unsuccessfully. I am trying to define the connection between an axial cam and its spherical follower (the follower translates axially in relation to the cam...