Tutorial: How to design belt/ chain drives in Solidworks?

Abhijeet

8 Feb, 2012 05:24 PM

Designing belt/ chain drives in Solidworks?

1. Step 1:

   Sketch circles or arcs on a plane
   

   

2. Step 2:

   Make blocks out of the circles
   

   

3. Step 3:

   Click "Ok"
   

   

4. Step 4:

   Unhighlight the highlighted area by clicking anywhere outside the sketch.
   

   

5. Step 5:

   Tools-> Sketch entities -> Belt/Chain
   

   

6. Step 6:

   Insert the parameters and click "OK"