Thanks, that's awesome!
I think I figured out what I was doing wrong, and I came up with sort of a solution.
At first I was connecting the joint with both pieces. What I did was connect the joint with one piece, say the top lever, and then group it with the next piece in the series, the linkage.
Sound about right?
Hello, I'm relatively new to Sketchup and totally new to SP. I've watched a bunch of tutorials over the last couple of days, and tried to emulate them, with moderate success. I did manage to make a few test joints for the model I really want to make:
I downloaded this Micro Compound Lever Press from the Warehouse a while back to modify it for use as a cheese press for making home-made cheeses. In trying to rig it for SP to demonstrate mechanical advantage and fine-tune the placement of joints, I've finally reached my limit of patience.
I've tried every combination of settings I can think of, and met with nothing but seemingly illogical results. Which usually means I'm missing something obvious.
I'll get the top lever working properly and then attach the next in the series, but when I hit play, the whole thing falls down except the static uprights and, for example, the top lever, which suddenly behaves statically.
I even tried using cylinders as hinges in the holes, but everything fell through each other, including the cylinders which just fell through the beams like they weren't there. I did check to make sure the beams weren't set to "ignore".
Thanks for any advice!
