Tutorial : Creating Spherical Joints in CATIA

Rahul

18 Jun, 2014 04:48 AM

Here's the steps to achieve spherical joints.

1. Step 1:

   Click the Spherical Joint icon in the Kinematics Joints toolbar or select Insert -> New Joint ->Spherical from the Menu bar. The Joint Creation: Spherical dialog box appears.

2. Step 2:

   Click New Mechanism. The Mechanism Creation dialog box is displayed.
   

   

3. Step 3:

   Select Point 1 in the geometry area. In our example select the ball extremity.
   Select Point 2 in the geometry area. Select a second point (socket extremity).
   

   

4. Step 4:

   Click Ok to end the spherical joint creation.