Assembling camshafts in SolidWorks
Assembling camshafts in SolidWorks
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Gentlemen,
I am trying to assembly one camshaft using SolidWorks and everything was going fine until now. The problem is that I need to add an angle between the cams and I am not beeing able to do it. Right now they are both aligned. I can rotate one of them manually but this is not a good solution.
Can anyone help me on that matter?
Kind regards,
Marcus
I am trying to assembly one camshaft using SolidWorks and everything was going fine until now. The problem is that I need to add an angle between the cams and I am not beeing able to do it. Right now they are both aligned. I can rotate one of them manually but this is not a good solution.
Can anyone help me on that matter?
Kind regards,
Marcus






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RE: Assembling camshafts in SolidWorks
Thank you for your answer. As far as I coud see I do not have any automatic relations preventing the movement of the cams. My main problem is that when I select ´Mate´ I do not know which features I have to select on Cam 1 and Cam 2 in order to make available the angle ´Mate´.
Answering your second question, although I can create parts and assembly them together I think I do not enough knowledge to create ´Mates´ using the planes.
Could you help me on that?
Thank you so much!
RE: Assembling camshafts in SolidWorks
RE: Assembling camshafts in SolidWorks
Thank you so much for your explanation. I was finally able to create the angle between the cams.
Kind regards to all,
Marcus