Hi everyone,
I have a mechanism analysis set up involving three hydraulic cylinders linked to a common part. During the analysis, I get an expected failure, "The mechanism constrains could not be satisfied. The mechanism could not be assembled." I get this error because I defined the ranges of operation for the hydraulic cylinders, and one of them is going out of range.
Currently, I have translation servo motors driving the motion of the cylinder rods. The motion is defined such that every combination of cylinder extension/retraction is tested (i.e. cylinder 1 is fully extended while the others are retracted, then cylinder 2 is extended alone, then 3, then cylinder 1 and 2 but not 3, etc...). These numbers are loaded from a table in the motor definition, and the only way that I know how to fix the constraint issue is to analyze the failure point and redefine the motor magnitudes at the time of fail.
Is there a way to run the analysis such that the program will run without causing constraint failures even if they are are caused by the definition of the motor mechanisms? In other words, is it possible to tell the motors to avoid cases where a constraint is out of range?
Thanks,
Mitch