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Re: Making the gears drive - motion

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Originally Posted by sanddrag
Go to the constraint tool, select the Motion tab, select your axes of rotation, and set your ratio. Make sure you set the relative direction of rotation too (for gears-opposite directions, for sprockets-same direction).
The gears seem to be over constrained and won't move. How do you suppress the constraints that inhibit the rotation? When the gears are created by Design Accelerator they are automatically generated with a boat load of constraints. As a new user I am not familiar (yet) with all these special constraints. Any suggestions?