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Air Cylinders Movement

Air Cylinders Movement

Air Cylinders Movement

(OP)
Hello Everyone

I'm working on assembly which has a bar attached at the top of two air cylinders.  The air cylinders are 24.75" apart.  My problem is that I can get the one air cylinder to move with the bar but, not the second one.  SolidWorks states that the assembly is overmated if, I add a second mate for the bar to attach the second air cylinder.  Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong.  Cheers.

Cheers,

Ralph Wright, CSWP
SolidWorks 2005, SP5.0
P4, 2.53Ghz
1.5 Gb RAM
ATI Fire GL8800 Card
Windows 2000 Pro

RE: Air Cylinders Movement

I'm guessing that you have limit mates on each cylinder to limit the stroke.  If the cylinders are subassemblies then one has to be in a configuration that has the limit mate suppressed. The limit mate, although it allows motion, is treated like a fully defining mate.

RE: Air Cylinders Movement

(OP)
handleman

Thanks for the information, I never thought of that point.  I will try that tomorrow when i get to work.  Cheers.

Cheers,

Ralph Wright, CSWP
SolidWorks 2005, SP5.0
P4, 2.53Ghz
1.5 Gb RAM
ATI Fire GL8800 Card
Windows 2000 Pro

RE: Air Cylinders Movement

If you want to be able to have both cylinders move with the bar, you'll need to create two floating configurations within the cylinder assembly ('float1' and 'float2'). Bring one of each into your upper assembly; then you'll be able to mate them properly to the bar and they'll move with the bar.
Unless this has changed, you couldn't bring in two instances of the same floating configuration and have them move normally, even if they're moving the same direction/distance.

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
CAD Administrator
SW '07 SP1.0, Dell M90, Intel 2 Duo Core, 2MB RAM, nVidia 2500M

RE: Air Cylinders Movement

(OP)
mirisj

Thank you for the information.  I will be working on this isssue at work today.  Cheers.

Cheers,

Ralph Wright, CSWP
SolidWorks 2005, SP5.0
P4, 2.53Ghz
1.5 Gb RAM
ATI Fire GL8800 Card
Windows 2000 Pro

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