moving object in a circular path

[haque11]

Hi to everyone in this blog.I have been trying for a month for making simulation of incremental forming process. I need to move the ball shaped die in a circular trajectory and continuously reduce the diameter of circle with the dept. But the die only can rotate with reference point. I tried to make circular trajectory by placing the ref point away from the die. But it make the work complicated when I need to reduce the diameter of circle with dept. Can anybody give me a solution plz..

 

[rstupplebeen]

Sounds like you need to move the reference point using a cylindrical coordinate system. I hope this helps.

Rob Stupplebeen

https://sites.google.com/site/robertkstupplebeen/

 

[haque11]

tnx Rob. I got an alternative using Amplitude. But it does not work that accurately. I tried on your option.But I am still new abaqus user. I cannot configure cylindrical coordinate.Can you give me a hints on it, so that i can try ..

 

[rstupplebeen]

Rob Stupplebeen

https://sites.google.com/site/robertkstupplebeen/