Geneva Drive a.k.a Maltese Cross Mating.

[Pohl]

Hello everyone,

I modeled up a geneva drive mechanism and I am having troubles trying to find a way to mate it properly in SW09. I figured you guys could help shed some light on this. Is it even possible? You can download my assembly from the attached link if you would like.

Thanks in advance for any and all help!

-Concordia res parvae crescent-

 

[Eltron]

I would try to use sketch geometry to mate things up with this mechanism. I'm thinking you'll need a tangent mate to a sketch circle on each part and maybe a gear mate to get things to spin together. Or you could use the Move command with Physical Dynamics enabled.

Dan

http://www.eltronresearch.com

Dan's Blog

 

[ShaggyPE]

Also, look into the cam mate.

-Dustin
Professional Engineer
Pretty good with SolidWorks

 

[Gupta65]

The files are corrupted over the link.

Check this similar posts on SW forums:

https://forum.solidworks.com/message/173617#173617

https://forum.solidworks.com/message/115143#115143

Deepak Gupta
SW 2010 SP4.0 & 2011 SP1.0
DriveWorks Pro 7 SP5
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