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Click the arrow within the Revolute Joint
icon.
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Undock the Kinematics Joints toolbar:
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Select Roll Curve Joint
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The Joint Creation: Roll Curve dialog box is displayed.
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Click New mechanism. The Mechanism
Creation dialog box is displayed:

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In our example, keep the default name Mechanism.1. |
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Select Curve 1, in our example, select the inner ring in
the geometry area. The current selection field is automatically updated
with your selection.
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Select Curve 2, for instance select the roller as shown
below:
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Click Ok to end the roll curve joint creation.

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The specification tree is updated.

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Now, create Roll Curve.2. For this click Roll Curve
Joint
again.
The Joint Creation: Roll Curve dialog box is displayed.
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Select the outer ring as curve 1 and the roller as curve
2 in the geometry area
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Click Ok to end the Roll Curve. 2 joint
creation.

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The specification tree is updated

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Now, create Revolute. 3. For this, click the
Revolute Joint icon
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The Joint Creation: Revolute dialog box is displayed.
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Select the lines and the planes:
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Assign the command, for this select the Angle driven
check box
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In Edition mode only:
you can verify the command orientation defined by a
green arrow in the geometry area and in this example (command
assigned to a revolute), you can change its orientation:
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The parts which are not involved in the joint
creation are displayed in low light (to easily locate the joint you
are working on): Picture.1
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Pass the cursor over the green arrow to launch a
short animation
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Click the arrow to change the command orientation
if necessary: Picture.2
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Picture.1
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Picture.2
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Now, if you delete the
command and assign it to Joint.1 for instance, all you can do is
check the orientation, you cannot change the command orientation. |

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Pass your cursor over to launch the animation: |
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If you try inadvertently to change the command
orientation on a roll curve joint, the following warning message is
displayed
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Click Ok to end the revolute joint creation.
The specification tree is updated.
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Click Fixed Part
or select Insert > Fixed Part... from the menu bar. The
New Fixed Part dialog box is displayed.
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Select the inner ring as fixed part either in the
geometry area or in the specification tree.
The specification tree is updated and the mechanism
can be simulated.
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