Getting Started Tutorials - MechDesigner > Tutorial 6: Cams: Flat, Barrel, Globoidal, 'Slot'

Barrel Cams and Globoidal Cams

Barrel, Cylindrical, and Globoidal Cams are types of 3D-Cams that you can model and design in MechDesigner.

You can save the 3D-Cam to a STEP file-type.

Skills needed for this Tutorial: Add Plane to Plane, Add Plane to Line.

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It is possible to design Barrel-Cams with:

•Cam-Rollers that move along a groove that is cut into the wall of the Barrel (see image)

One Cam-Roller will generate the two Cam-Flanks. To model this 3D-Cam you need only one Cam-Roller.

AND

•Cam-Rollers that move along the sides of a rib that extends out from the wall of the Barrel.

To model a Rib-Cam, you need to add two Cam-Rollers and two 3D-Cams.

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These cams are also called Ferguson Drives, or Roller Gear Drives.

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