Problem Reg. Making A Wedge Tangent To Cylinder

[hhopeout]

Hi

 

Can anyone help me in making a wedge tangent to Cylinder?

I have tried it using the "match" option but is not useful...

[dhovatter]

I am assuming you want the Cylinder to be tangent as if the cylinder is rolling down the wedge. Use you Tri Ball. On way is to set the tri ball to the contact point you want on the wedge first perpendicular to the face you want the cylinder to be tangent to. Then move the wedge to the center of the cylinder. Then drag the wedge the exact radius of the cylinder. The cylinder and wedge are now tangent. That is if you can move the wedge. But if you need to leave the wedge where it is you can use the tri Ball. Set the tri ball to center of cylinder. Rotate the cylinder parallel to an edge of the wedge. Drag the cylinder to point on desired wedge face and then rotate the cylinder with tri ball till the one axis of the cylinder is perpendicular to that face. Now drag the cylinder away from the face the exact Radius of the cylinder. I an sure there are other ways but this takes about 5 seconds to do. To adjust the placement of the cylinder on the wedge use tri ball, make sure the axis of the cylinder is still parallel to face and drag it where you want.

 

 

[Cary OConnor]

You can use the Positioning Constraint Tool (Two to the right of the Triball on the Toolbar). Use the Tangent option and select the cylinder and then the face of the wedge. Attached is a simple example. Turn on the Mechanism mode under the Tools menu and drag the cylinder to test.

Hope this helps.

Cary

 

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