Contact Sets | When To Use Them And When To Avoid Them |  

Nice work! Fusion did add the tangent relationship which I covered with a rocker arm BUT it also has its limitations.

Test as in simulate? Like a dynamic simulation? Fusion does have a simulation option for projectiles if you are trying to understand small movements and material behavior. In terms of movements with contacts that is a tricky one. I have found that Fusion actually handles this better than other CAD, but it really doesn't have a dynamic motion simulation option sadly. Motion Studies found in the Assemble menu allow you to drive a joint or joints and see what the motion is like, but tend to lock up with contact sets.

Or is there a third method tgat might achieve this?

what happens to the gear when the teeth no longer engage? How does the half gear get moving again? What you might have to do is fake it because true gear contacts can be very processor heavy and tend to lock up. if you can email me a file/pic to support@ caducator I might have a better answer. My first thought is a set of hidden components with a simplified version of your contacts.

@@LearnEverythingAboutDesign The half gear would be the driver. First meshing with a rack, then with another gear. So the output gears move in sequence. First the half gear moves the rack, then it moves a gear.

@@sethother8012 Yeah that is a tough one. a360.co/3HN5yKF This one works but the gear to gear contact sets forces it to go crazy calculating the intersections. Gear to rack seems to work a bit better. My only other thought is to do this with some sort of Geneva Mechanism setup where the contact is a cylinder in a slot vs gear tooth interaction.