mating a cylinder and a sphere?
mating a cylinder and a sphere?
(OP)
Hello
I have two extruded bodies, a cylinder and a sphere.
I'm trying to apply a mate in order to avoid that they could penetrate each other.
I've tried to get it by creating a limit distance mate between their surfaces but I'm not allowed to do that.
How can I do it?
I know I could try
move components->physical dynamics or collision detection, or even use a simulation, but I'd like to do it with standard mates.
thanks
I have two extruded bodies, a cylinder and a sphere.
I'm trying to apply a mate in order to avoid that they could penetrate each other.
I've tried to get it by creating a limit distance mate between their surfaces but I'm not allowed to do that.
How can I do it?
I know I could try
move components->physical dynamics or collision detection, or even use a simulation, but I'd like to do it with standard mates.
thanks






RE: mating a cylinder and a sphere?
Is the sphere axially or radially aligned with the cylinder?
What movement is involved? Axial, radial or revolution.
You may have to use reference planes, surfaces and/or sketch elements with a (possibly Limit) mate scheme.
RE: mating a cylinder and a sphere?
Actually, I was speaking in general,
How can I mate the surface of two bodies in order to avoid them to penetrate each other when I move them.
I've said the cylinder and the sphere just to give an example.
The cylinder could have any orientation, thus I can't reduce the problem measuring the distance between two planes.
RE: mating a cylinder and a sphere?
RE: mating a cylinder and a sphere?
Since the surface of a sphere contains no information about orientation the best we can do is explain how to mate the end or side of a cylinder to the surface of a sphere.
The contact mate comes to mind. Simply pick a surface/face on each body and pick mate/contact. Click OK. The two should be mated.
Note: Contact mates between two curved bodies such as this have multiple solutions.
If you are trying to get a limit mate that works with curved surfaces you are out of luck, except with collision detection.
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RE: mating a cylinder and a sphere?
kellnerp, you are right, I mean exactly what you say,
Getting a limit mate that works with curved surfaces, but not collision detection.
Do you know if ProEngineer or Inventor support it?
RE: mating a cylinder and a sphere?
I will have to do some work to check this out, so I may not have the answer right here and right now.
May I ask what the problem is that you are trying to solve?
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RE: mating a cylinder and a sphere?
I'm just learning Solidworks and I was tinking in that problem with mates.
I know that the complication arises from the different orientations that can have the cylinder.
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RE: mating a cylinder and a sphere?
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RE: mating a cylinder and a sphere?
It is doable.
You need 7zip to uncompress the avi file.
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RE: mating a cylinder and a sphere?
How did you got it?
Does it work with the base of the cylinder too?
RE: mating a cylinder and a sphere?
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