Plane on plane joint-topsolid-kxcad

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Plane on plane joint

Description :

Allows you to create a plane on plane joint between two elements.

We call spherical joint every joint of which the degree of freedom are: a rotation around an axis and two translation along the two axis who are perpendicular to the rotation axis.

General philosophy:

Choose in the list:

Select the base element.
Select the linked element.
Indicate the direction of the first translation (oriented) of the joint .
Indicate the rotation axis (oriented) of the joint.
Enter the joint name or select the ANONYMOUS button.

Specific point(s):

The two axis can not be parallel; they define a unique coordinate system (O,X,Y,Z) as follow:

O is a point on the axis.
Y is the vector of the first translation, he is perpendicular to Y if it were not the case.
Z is the direction vector of the axis.
X is the vector like (X,Y,Z) have to be perpendicular, normed and direct.

3 degrees of freedom :

rotation around OZ.
translation along Y
translation along X

The driven joint(s) must be the only ones named before the creation of the scenario. They will be the only ones to appear on the scenario. You can give a name to the other joints in the symbolic tree.

Example:

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