Figure 1 Gear Contact property page [Gear Contact page]
•Definition of The Base Gear
•Entity Name: Specifies the name of the base gear.
•Definition of The Action Gear
•Entity Name: Specifies the name of the action gear.
•Force Display: Graphically displays the resultant force vector on the view window. For more information, click here.
•Contact Output File: When this function is checked, RecurDyn creates the contact output file for contact information between gears as follows. The name of output file will be 'ModelName_ContactName.out'.
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Col. |
Variables |
Descriptions |
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1 |
Time (sec) |
Simulation Time |
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2 |
amount of contact point |
Total number of calculated contact points |
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3 |
Pos_TX of gear_1 CM |
Position X of base gear’s center marker |
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4 |
Pos_TY of gear_1 CM |
Position Y of base gear’s center marker |
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5 |
Pos_TZ of gear_1 CM |
Position Z of base gear’s center marker |
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6 |
Pos_PSI of gear_1 CM |
Orientation Psi of base gear’s center marker |
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7 |
Pos_THETA of gear_1 CM |
Orientation Theta of base gear’s center marker |
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8 |
Pos_PHI of gear_1 CM |
Orientation Phi of base gear’s center marker |
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9 |
Pos_TX of gear_2 CM |
Position X of action gear’s center marker |
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10 |
Pos_TY of gear_2 CM |
Position Y of action gear’s center marker |
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11 |
Pos_TZ of gear_2 CM |
Position Z of action gear’s center marker |
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12 |
Pos_PSI of gear_2 CM |
Orientation Psi of action gear’s center marker |
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13 |
Pos_THETA of gear_2 CM |
Orientation Theta of action gear’s center marker |
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14 |
Pos_PHI of gear_2 CM |
Orientation Phi of action gear’s center marker |
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15 |
|
The index for contact points |
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16 |
Global contact position |
Global contact position |
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17 |
Contact position based on gear_1 |
Contact position based on gear_1 |
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18 |
Contact position base on gear_2 |
Contact position base on gear_2 |
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19 |
Contact force based on gear_2 |
Contact force based on gear_2 |
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20 |
Friction force based on gear_2 |
Friction force based on gear_2 |