Door Hinge Mechanism
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Description
This example illustrates the functionality of Motion Envelope and click-and-drag and motion simulation capabilities of Mechanism as applied to a door mounted in a frame. The actual problem comes from a customer who manufactures printing machines. In a past project this customer found, at great cost late in the development cycle, that the doors interfered with components inside and outside of the main cabinet when opened.
Without Behavioral Modeling the customer had to position the hinge at the extremities of the mechanism using a datum curve skeleton. The inefficiency of this process caused them to miss the interference at the design stage. When the interference was finally discovered at the prototype stage, significant rework for several internal parts was required.
This example begins by showing how the motion and interference of the door and hinge with the frame and other internal parts can be observed using both click-and-drag and motion simulation Mechanism functionality. The example then steps through the creation of motion envelopes for the door and hinge and shows how these motion envelopes can be used to check for interference and as a space claim for design of adjacent parts.
