80/20 Roller Wheel & Motion Study — Fusion 360 Tutorial — #LarsLive 184

Live Stream — How to insert a roller wheel to an 80/20 rail and get it to move with a motion study. Joints are better than Mates!! :-)
Time: About 15-30 minutes (We all have other things to do :-)

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[cadcamstuff]

Sorry that I keep deleting videos. Something is wrong with how YouTube processes the recording after the livestream and either the audio is out of sync or part of the video is missing. This is my local recording. Again! sorry for any comments that was lost.

[ricouxstephane]

Awesome ... again ! I didn't need this but watched and built it your way just for fun and it was ... fun !

[chestnut]

Lars Christensen, your videos are amazing and so very useful and educational! I really appreciate your explanations and walkthroughs, these really make learning a new CAD software a pleasant experience.

[rickmandrey]

Awesome video, this novice really appreciate's all the extra steps with placing the joint orgin!!

[malcolmhodgson]

Everything I needed in one video! Perfect.

[alepio]

Hi Lars, I love your energy, great experience, you speak a very simple, clear english that allowed me to understand everything and learn all about this software! hope to meet you a day if you'll come here in Italy :D THANK YOU SO MUCH LARS !

[insan]

As always, very helpful, Awesome job Lars!!

[jaimevaldez]

Nice video very thorough and easy to follow and understand the concepts. I have not seen anyone on YouTube model the motion of drag chain and a cnc or 3d printer. I have seen some for Solidworks but nothing for Fusion 360. Any plans to make a video on that in the future? Thanks for sharing

[darkshadowsx]

Thanks for showing McMaster Carr that's very helpful.

[gozzzart]

this one is great & that will help me a lot now I think I am in 50 0/0 now how to use fusion 360 which is close to my heart I thank you & all the team put so much time. the job you are doing will help so many families can have food on their table

[pedramsamieyan]

Wow, I strongly need to practice a lot more on joint topic and motions. Would you please make more lecture on this topic? I really appreciate that. Cheers.

[asamercer]

Thank you so much for the great tutorial!!! :)

[refdogg]

What is that device on the wall behind you?

[OranthumLLC]

Great tutorial! I learned several things. I have one more question for you on this topic. How can i get a "wheel " to follow a curved track? I don't care if the wheel turns but i do need it to follow the curve as if it was rolling on the surface. Thank you in advance.

[NeilWNC]

Perhaps you talk about this in another video (???) but how do I model a V-Wheel rolling in OpenBuilds-style V-Rail? Some time back I posted a YouTube video asking this very question, and got lots of solutions that required doing precision math to get the two to play nice together. None of them were actual answers, just band-aids. In particular, none of them were actually "tangent", just kinda-sorta due to the punched-in numbers.

Fusion360's insistence on avoiding tangent mates, or mates at all, make this specific task more difficult than it should be. BTW mating V-Wheels in V-Rails is trivially easy in Solidworks, Inventor and Onshape.

Folks like me who use V-Wheels and V-Rail all the time when designing 3D printers are NOT well served by the (in my opinion) cumbersome JOINT methodology, at least as currently defined.

Please show me where I'm wrong.

[warrenscorner]

I wish your mouse was highlighted in some fashion, maybe larger with a color. Sometimes when you jump around I miss what you are clicking on.
Thank you for the awesome videos! I’m trying to create the joint on the V bearing like other comments have mentioned but can’t seem to make that happen. Is there a video I missed?

[hybrid]

Hey I’m doing a school project how would you do a lock in between so it can lock into place halfway through the rail?

[rmps]

Cool video. What are you using to move the model around?

[mnieman]

I put a little blue anodized tick mark on the bearing wheels and am currently trying to figure out the motion study that shows both the sliding bracket and the rotating wheels. If you are able to add that element to an updated video in the future that would be really helpful.

[philiprogers]

Thank you. Minimum has to be less than Maximum. It seems really obvious but I have struggled with that for ages. Can you do a video about driving a joint like in a crank slider mechanism.