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Help with Roller chains

Hey all you Inventor Gods,

Well, im trying to use the Design excellerator to create roller chains for the robot design, but I don't know how to use the chain pins and rolls of the KoP (the ones I downloaded from FIRSTBase - a single pin and a single roll models).
Plus, I'm having some trouble using the sprokets, I understand there are the iMates that should help me align all the stuff, but after I align the two sprokets the design excellerator says somthing about needing a 'sliding sproket' and because im using existing sprokets I can't make them 'sliding sprokets' .
Finally, when I do render somthing it's a strange blue semi-transparent continious chain :S how can I switch that blue stuff to my actual chain parts?

Anywho, generally I need a tutorial for making chains, since I saw you guys have a proper chain, maybe you could give me a hand in this ?


Thank a lot,


Barak Shelef
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