Guru's,
I have an assembly with a mechanism. It contains a link, pinned on both ends, with one pin a rotating arm and the other into a piston in a cylinder with a slider joint. I am trying to maximize the thickness of the link with respect to it's long axis. The limitation is the clearance to the cylinder walls. What I have done is put points on the cylinder and then used the trace curve function to produce trace curves on the link. Then I used those curves as references for the profile of the link all the way around. It looks like this with the link round in cross section with varying diameters as shown:
The issue is that since the link is NOT free to rotate, it COULD be thicker in the direction perpendicular to the ones shown above. Essentially, it could have an oval or elliptical cross section of varying size. The point/trace curve method described above would work, and since there is symmetry I only have to do this for 180º around the link axis as opposed to 360º, but it seems tedious. SOOOOOOO... I am wondering if there is a better way? Maybe something I am missing? Any suggestions???
thanks in advance....
Paul Korenkiewicz
FEV, Inc.
4554 Glenmeade
Auburn Hills, MI., 48326
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