Do you have any idea, how can I twist from a cylinder to another cylinder for example a V belt, using conveyor between the two cylinder. The process should be continuous, so I could see on the first cylinder the whole V belt during the process until the last roll on the cylinder.
Maybe its not too understandable. The most important is that, at the same time the V belt is unroll from the first (starter ) cylinder and wind up to the other cylinder. For example the V belt is 100meters long, while the distance between the two cylinder is only 5 meters. Here is situated the conveyor.
My biggest problem is, I can't simulate how become the circular motion of the V belt to straight motion, when its unroll from the cylinder and reach the conveyor. And then inversely, at the and of the conveyor.
I'm not sure I know what a V-belt is or does. Is there a youtube video or something that could demonstrate this process?
Answer by Jörg Vogel · Feb 09, 2017 at 05:41 PM
You are looking for a special visual look and behavior of a conveyor class. You will find only two classic types flat belt conveyors and roll conveyors. If you don't depend the explicit three dimensional shape you can put a texture over the flat belt that looks like the v-shape. Another approach is to let flowitems represent the belt and change this belt surrogate shapes by photo eyes at the end of the conveyor.
You can build a static shape that doesn't move at all. The classic belt is not shown but the flowitems still move.
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