STEP 1: Add a Mechanism, Part and a Sketch for the Tool-Part.

In the Mechanism-Editor:

1.Model-Editor: Click Model toolbar > Add Mechanism | Click a Plane

You will jump to the Mechanism-Editor

2.Mechanism-Editor: Click Kinematics toolbar > Add Part | Drag to add a Part.

3.Mechanism-Editor Edit the Part.

4.Part-Editor: Add a similar sketch in the image to the left. The sketch must be a sketch-loop.

5.Close the Part-Editor

STEP 5: Edit the Base-Part

STEP 6: Add a Line to the Base-Part, and Horizontal, and Add a Dimension.

STEP 7: Close the Part-Editor.

The Base-Part is a kinematically-defined Part. It is a Green Part.

The new Part is not yet a kinematically-defined. It is a Blue Part.  It is also called a Free-Part.

STEP 1: Click Kinematic-elements toolbar > Add Slide-Joint

STEP 2: Click the CAD-Line along the Blue Part (the CAD-Line is Red in the image).

STEP 3: Click the Line in the Base-Part - see mouse-pointer in the image

To remind you: the Symbol of the Slide-Joint is:

1.Two rectangles that extend along the full length of each Line that you select to add the Slide-Joint.

In this image, the:

•a thin rectangle - which we can imagine as the Slide-Rail

•a wider rectangle (- which we can imagine as the Sliding-Block

2.A small arrowhead at the start-Point of one of the two Lines. The arrowhead is in the positive direction of the Slide-Joint.

STEP 1: Kinematic-FB toolbar > Add Motion-Dimension FB.

Reminder: You can add a Motion-Dimension FB to a Pin-Joint or a Slide-Joint, to make a Rocker or Slider respectively.

The Command-Manager has three selection boxes:

STEP 2: Click the Rectangle that is the symbol for the Slide-Joint.

When you select a Slide-Joint as the Element #1

•Element #2 must be a Point in a Green Part

•Element #3 must be a Point in a Blue Part

STEP 3: Click the start-Point of the Line in the Green Base-Part

STEP 4: Click the start-Point of the CAD-Line in the Blue Part

STEP 5: Right-click - to complete the command, close the Command-Manager, and add the Motion-Dimension FB.

Now, the Part is Green and a kinematically-defined Part. We call it a Slider.

STEP 6: Double-click the Motion-Dimension in the graphics-area

STEP 7: Motion-Dimension dialog | Enter Base-Value = 30(mm)

Note: To drag / move in the graphics-area, the:

Add the Function-Blocks and connect:

STEP 8: Click Kinematic-FB toolbar > Add Motion FB and then click the graphics-area

STEP 9: Click Kinematic-FB toolbar > Add Linear-Motion FB and then click the graphics-area

STEP 10: Connect the Function-Blocks.

If you cycle the model (ALT+C ), the Slider moves with the default motion of 90mm. As its Base-Value is 30mm, it will move from 30mm to 120mm to 30mm with each machine-cycle.

We rotate a 2D-Cam to drive the slider back and forth.

Add the sketch for the center of a cam-shaft to the Base-Part.

STEP 1: Edit the Base-Part

STEP 2: Geometry toolbar > Add Line, approximately where you want the center of the cam-shaft.

STEP 3: Constraints toolbar > Add Horizontal to the Line

You can see the new Blue Line at the bottom. It is Blue because we have not yet specified its Length.

We can add to it a bracket to support the Follower-Roller.

The Follower-Roller is a circle of Radius 90mm

STEP 3: Edit the Slider Part

STEP 4: Geometry toolbar > Add Circle to represent a Follower-Roller

STEP 5: Exit the Part-Editor

STEP 3: Solids toolbar > Add Profile

STEP 4: Click the Circle

This is the Follower-Roller.

Add a Cam-Shaft that rotates one time per machine cycle. This is Tutorial 1.

Use the Line in the Base-Part as the center of the cam-shaft.

STEP 5: Click Kinematic elements > Add Part | Drag in the graphics-area to add the Part

STEP 6: Click Kinematic elements > Add Pin-Joint | Click the start-Point of the Line in the Base-Part and the start-Part of the new Part.

STEP 7: Click Kinematic FB > Add Motion-Dimension FB | Click the Pin-Joint, the Line in the Base-Part and the CAD-Line along the Part.

STEP 8: Click Kinematic FB > Add Linear-Motion FB and the graphics-area.

STEP 9: Connect the Motion-Dimension FB and the Linear-Motion FB

Add the 2D-Cam

STEP 1: Click Machine elements > Add 2D-Cam.

STEP 2: Click the Cam-Shaft

STEP 3: Click the Cam- Roller

STEP 4: Click in the Command-Manager.

The new 2D-Cam is in the graphics-area.

If you cycle the model, the 2D-Cam rotates one time as the Slider moves one motion cycle.