Hi All,
Just a quick question I've not found an easy answer to, but I'm looking to simulate some conveyors in SolidWorks, nothing fancy, just some straight, flightless conveyors in a system.
Now I've seen all the Youtube videos about how to animate a conveyor and have tried a few tricks but yet to find a really satisfactory situation.
Ones like this:
I've tried, but it seems pretty flaky and often seems to take ages to run the simulation, for even a simple conveyor, or it crashes.
I'm currently trying a situation where I have a hidden long, flat planar part moving by a linear motor 0,5mm or so above my modelled conveyor belt surface. This also works, but also seems to take a fair while to simulate. I have a pretty decent sized assembly with some event based motion, but for some reason, just making my components move along the conveyor seems to be the biggest use of time.
I could make the conveyor "flighted", which would push the product along, but don't really want to do this.
Am I better to just add linear motors or forces to the conveyed product components themselves and let it slide along a conveyor surface or is there a way I could improve the efficiency of my current model?
It seems to me that having an off-the-shelf "conveyor" motor in SW Motion would be a good thing, where you could specify a belt surface and any free part that fell atop that surface would be conveyed, the maths should be pretty simple.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
George.