Making Gears/Chain in Inventor?
 

For our robot, I was wondering if there was a way to get gears to move inside the toughbox, and if there was an easy way to make that then move a chain to a wheel.
Is there any tutorials, or do you have any advice on doing this, because other wise I am stumped!
Thanks for all your help!

Re: Making Gears/Chain in Inventor?
 

I'm not sure about the chain, but to make the gear or wheel move you can apply a motion constraint in your assembly. It should be in the tab with the other constraints. It allows you to set ratios.

Re: Making Gears/Chain in Inventor?
 

The only thing I could say is there may be a way to constrain the wheels to the gears to make them spin together, but I don't remember how to. As for the chain, don't worry about it as getting a part that complex to move may be hard. I would just use Inventor's "amazing" physics to the point that the sprokets move freely through the chain.

Re: Making Gears/Chain in Inventor?
 

If your asking about how to create an animation so that the chain rotates, gears rotate, and wheels rotate all at the same time; it can be done, but I've never seen anybody bother to attempt it because it'll take you about a whole day to accomplish, and there are much more important things to do, like complete a robot, pictures, 2D's, wiring, pneumatics, other animations, ect.