Roller chains generator

[Daniel_H]

Hello everyone,

Does anybody knows a way to make the roller chains generator generates actual chainlinks instead of that blue belt arround the sprockets?
That would make nicer renderings :)
Last year I constrained every link and it was not cool

thanks.

[JD Mather]

Not that I know of.

Instead of placing and constraining all of the links I would place one pin link and one roller link and then pattern in the assembly. (There is a bit of a trick to get this to work.)
Attached is an example one of my students did (he got the catenary curve on the wrong side but otherwise nice).

[Daniel_H]

This video is really good, but I can't think of a way to do that. In the previous years we used the chainer technique (create a surface in the chape of the chain's trajectory, contraint the links to it and then make the surface invisible).
I wonder how the pattern on the video was done.

[JD Mather]

It will be several weeks till we get to sprocket and chain drives. I will try to work up a tutorial by that time.

[artdutra04]

Try this:

http://www.team228.org/documents/Roller-Chain_Inventor.zip

I still do not know where this file came from, as I found it on one of the team's computers several years ago. All I know is that it works really well for generating roller chain assemblies in Inventor. ;)

[=Martin=Taylor=]

Try this:

http://www.team228.org/documents/Roller-Chain_Inventor.zip

I still do not know where this file came from, as I found it on one of the team's computers several years ago. All I know is that it works really well for generating roller chain assemblies in Inventor. ;)

That came from the cbliss website (http://www.cbliss.com/). I could never get it to work. How exactly do you use it?