Hello,
I am creating an animation which involves a blade with on edge touching a cylinder. I want the blade to be 30deg off of the tangent line of the point it makes contact to the cylinder. I am trying to figure out a way to measure this angle. I have tried drawing a square from the geometry tab and using the angle measurement. I cant be positive if me square placement on the cylinder is exactly tangent though. I apologize for the terrible picture but I think it helps get my point across. Thoughts?
Thank you,
Jake
Hi Jake,
i think it is much easier to create this scene in SolidWorks, a cad system
but here is a possibility to position the plane/blade
1. create a plane by using geometry-primitives-square by using the endplane of the cylinder
!!!use the ALT-Key to position this square dire c t to the middle of the cylinderdiameter
2. rotate the square by 90°
3. measure the cylinder diameter
4. move the square by 1/2 of the diameter
5. change the square to depth 5000 an width 1000 = "primitive 1"
6. Align "line/axis to line/axis" of the blade to the long line of the "primitive 1"
using the ALT-Key
7.Move the blade back by 500, use therefore the ALT-Key
8. measure the angle of the blade (8.95°) and than rotate the blade by 21.05° using the the ALT-Key and the long edge of the blade
ALT-Key as an easy way to curve detection mode
you find the changes in the smg file attached