I'm having a real nightmare with this one.
I'm trying to mate the roller's hexagon shaft with the hexagon hole. hole is 11.5 mm shaft is 11 mm.
I've tried using advanced mate, width. This works for the first shaft, however it throws out the alignment at the other end.
Any help much appreciated.
Aug 19, 2017 4:02 AM
Hi Darren,
Have you double checked that the hexagonal holes are in line with one another? With the holes aligned, and using an advanced width mate on 2 of the hexagonal shaft's faces, I get the result you'd expect (see image below)
Would you be able to share the files?
I had made these kind of conveyors and have used these rollers. I used to coincident mate for center axis of the roller with center point/axis of the hexagon cut. And then a parallel mate on any one side.Finally distance mate on one side to keep the roller in position.
If you're going to put too many of these, use feature driven pattern.
Turning on the temp axis shows the roller centre which i can select for mating. The hex cut extrude does not show a centre though.
How can i create a centre point reference on the hole?
I completely understand your solution and it will work perfectly, i just can't get a centre point on the hex hole to show for mating.
Show the sketch for the hexagon cut and then you can use the center point of the hexagon sketch.
In addition I would suggest you to create an axis in the roller rather than using the temp axis. And make sure you use the default planes to create the axis rather than using the roller geometry.
Thank you Deepak and Iain.
Problem solved. I also made sure the opposite frames were in parallel mating.
Thanks again
