Getting Started Tutorials - MechDesigner > Tutorial 6: Cams: Flat, Barrel, Globoidal, 'Slot' > 6C: Barrel-Cams & Globoidal-Cams > 6C1: Oscillating-Follower Barrel-Cam

IMPORTANT: Add the 3D-Cam to the Mechanism name-tab that includes the Cam-Part (the Cam-Shaft in this model).

Note:

Show other Kinematic and sketch-elements:

To do Add 3D-Cam, you must select kinematic and sketch-elements that are in other Mechanism-Editors.

To see the elements in the other Mechanism-Editors, you must:

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STEP 1: Prepare the View

1.Click the Cam-Shaft Mechanism name-tab

You must be able to see five “other kinematic and sketch-elements” (see — image to the left) to do Add 3D-Cam

To see the elements:

1.Right-Click the Mechanism name-tabs

a.Enable Show with “other Kinematic and Sketch-Elements”

and

2.Enable Visibility toolbar > Show other Kinematic and Sketch-Elements

3.Disable Display Filter toolbar > Display Planes

2.Use your keyboard arrow keys to spin the View of the graphic-area.

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STEP 2: Machine-element toolbar > Add 3D-Cam

1.Click Machine-elements toolbar > Add 3D-Cam

The Command-Manager starts.

There are five selection-boxes.

2.Click the elements in order:

Follower Part

Follower-Roller Profile

Cam-Shaft Part

Cam-Blank Profile

Rotational-Axis Line

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STEP 3: Complete the command

Click in the Command-Manager

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Result

We add for you the 3D-Cam as the space that the Follower-Roller moves along relative to the Cam-Part.

The 3D-Cam is the space that must be cut from Cam-Blank.

Next, we edit the settings of the 3D-Cam.

Step 6C1.2: Add the 3D-Cam