One Tooth at a Time

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Original project made with Autodesk Inventor 2014 as a Dynamic Simulation. The action is due to a imposed motion applied to the crank (83 rot/min = 500 deg/s) and to the gravitation. The purpose of this mechanism is to convert a continuous rotation motion of the crank disk into an intermittent motion of the toothed disk, one tooth at one rotation. The inertial movement of the toothed disk between the actions of the indexing arm is blocked by the roller, which is tensed by the weight lever. The animation is obtained by transferring data from the Dynamic Simulation to Inventor Studio with the „Publish to Studio” tool. If you use Inventor, you have to download all the files in a single directory, then open the .iam file with Inventor 2014, 2015..., enter Environments/Dynamic Simulation and click on Play button. Instead of 4000 images you can apply 1000 images if you have to wait too much for the simulation. Enjoy!