Thread: Making the gears drive - motion
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Re: Making the gears drive - motion
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Originally Posted by ronmarkum
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?
Did you try un-grounding the first gear and suppressing the Gear Meshing constraint in the gear model? Those were the culprits when I tried it.
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