good questions, Brian.
just to restate my problem a bit better. i need to make many clamps, which can automatically disengage clamping and turn upwards so that there is free room to lower a plate down onto the jaws that sourround on all four sides of this plate, then they turn back down onto the...
i have this issue where i want to calculate a linear motion of 70 mm to turn an axle 90 degrees or more, it needs to be able to have an overhead because the piston only has 80 mm to use and need the 10 mm for the actuation of actually clamping down on the mechanism that gets turned 90 degrees...