Hello,
I am a senior in college doing a senior project involving product development. I have to create a Solidworks file despite my lack of Solidworks experience. I came across a problem when making a "cross-bar" of sorts (similar to a piston cylinder assembly). The cross-bar is suppose to extend as the angle in the elbow increases.The inside "piston" of the cross-bar is parallel mated to the outside "cylinder", however; we would like the mate to be concentric or advanced. I am not sure why these two items are running through each other rather than simply extending in an orthogonal manner. Below are some picture to help explain:
In the first picture, the cylinder-piston is correctly shown. But when the highlighted blue piece in the second picture is moved up or down, the cylinder-piston fails to extend orthogonally. The two grey parts connected to the cross-bar are meant to slide up/down and left/right respectively.
Any help is greatly appreciated, Thank you.
Have you tried using a concenric mate between the two pieces that do not move correctly? Looks like you need to do this. If it causes errors, start suppressing the mates that the are failing one at a time, until the errors dissapear. Sometimes one mate will cause multiple mates to have errors, but suppressing a single mate may clear up multiple errors.