pic: Chain and Back Wheel System

[hockeystud91]

Originally Posted by Cowmankoza

wow, i could never do chain in inventor, if there is a way to do it without making a single linking and placing it over and over please do tell!, nice work

The chain took quite a lot of work to get right, the picture i have on here is acutally the first time i did it; i just finished redoing it yesterday. i made a couple of different parts. i made the middle link that's one whole part with the two rods already in it offset .05", the two outer links as an assembly, then a couple of edited pieces that would complete the chain.
Then i just assembled the chain in certain pieces, constrained the chain to both sprockets and then used two different edited length connectors between the two chains. I mirrored it over a plane in the center of the robot representations so that i didn't have to do it again. It gets easier once you've done it once. That's how i did, i don't think there's a really easy way to assemble one chain and use it again without making a table, linking it, doing all the correct math and making sure your assembled parts are the right distances apart.