Hey everyone,
I am having a tough time getting a linear spring to simulate correctly in Solidworks Basic Motion. I have boiled my setup down to a very basic just to see if I can get it to work, but it still does not work. My setup is two plates of equal dimensions and orientation spaced one over the other. I created a coincident mate of two of the same planes in both plates that will allow for only vertical movement. When I place a linear spring of any constant other than 0 between the two plates and try to run the simulation, then it seems that my top plate just flies off in all different directions so far off the screen that I can't even see it. I added material to the two plates, and I added gravity, however I still get the same behavior.
What is interesting is that when I place a linear motor between the two plates, it works perfectly, but when I add a spring, then it just blows up. I am currently running Solidworks 2009 Premium on a Windows Vista 64 bit system.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Hey Karl,
just activate SWX Motion and change the study type to motion analysis. Then everything is working fine.
Why Basic motion doesn't work I don't know exactly but I think it's not calculated exact enough and therefore this confusing movement is displayed.
regards Flo