How to keep cylinders from reversing themselves
How to keep cylinders from reversing themselves
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Hello all,
We use quite a few hydraulic & pneumatic cylinder assemblies in our assemblies as "flexible" models for mating purposes. Many times when moving the upper level assemblies through their degrees of freedom the cylinders reverse themselves (rod & cylinder body are facine away from each other). When we build the cylinder assemblies we always have the rod body and the cylinder body concentric with each other. When they reverse themselves they maintain the concentic mate but the concentric mate should not allow them to "un-mate and then mate again". Is thee a way to prevent this from happeneing while still using them as flexible assemblies? It is really becoming counter-productive.
Thanks.
We use quite a few hydraulic & pneumatic cylinder assemblies in our assemblies as "flexible" models for mating purposes. Many times when moving the upper level assemblies through their degrees of freedom the cylinders reverse themselves (rod & cylinder body are facine away from each other). When we build the cylinder assemblies we always have the rod body and the cylinder body concentric with each other. When they reverse themselves they maintain the concentic mate but the concentric mate should not allow them to "un-mate and then mate again". Is thee a way to prevent this from happeneing while still using them as flexible assemblies? It is really becoming counter-productive.
Thanks.
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RE: How to keep cylinders from reversing themselves
Look at the mate order.
Re-order the mates just for the cylinder.
Mates are solved in sequence one at a time. If a flippable mate is solved first that could be the problem.
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