Cam-Follower Mates
A cam-follower mate is a type of tangent or coincident mate. It allows
you to mate a cylinder, plane, or point to a series of tangent extruded
faces, such as you would find on a cam. You can make the profile of the
cam from lines, arcs, and splines, as long as they are tangent and form
a closed loop.
The following picture shows three followers which stay in contact with
the cam as it rotates.
To add a cam-follower mate:
Click Mate
(Assembly toolbar) or Insert,
Mate.
In the
PropertyManager,
under Mechanical Mates, click
Cam
.
Under Mate Selections, select the tangent
faces on the cam for Entities to Mate
.
Right-click one of the faces
and click Select Tangency. This
selects all the tangent faces in one step.
Click in
Cam follower and select a face
or vertex on the cam follower.
Click
.
The follower is mated to all of the cam surfaces,
allowing the follower to stay in contact with the cam as it rotates. A
cam-follower mate appears in the FeatureManager design tree as
CamMateCoincident
or
CamMateTangent.