Lets assume that this example has one putting a bearing onto an output shaft, driven by an input shaft through a set of gears. The large scale motion skeleton is set up, and works to allow the output shaft to rotate after defining gear connections.
I want to simulate the motion of the bearing carrier, but is it possible to crate a motion skeleton within the bearing assembly then assembly it onto the larger Gear reducer assembly, or will I have to assembly it piece by piece? I want to allow myself to auto populate the BOM by the features contained inside the model, and to do this the bearing has to be assembled before it is put on.
The only way I've done it before is to assembly the carrier onto the shaft separately from the inner and outer race, which causes it to show up in the model tree as two separate parts (in reality the bearing is pressed on as a single feature). Any ideas how to do this?
Currently, I am defining the bearing as a Gear Pair through a Motion skeleton, and the gear pair definition occurs inside the bearing assembly. Do I just need to change where the gear pair definition occurs, or is there some other proble.
Any advice is great help.
Thanks